Driven to Insanity: Marital Cruelty and the Female Patients at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1858-1908
In nineteenth-century Fremantle, marital cruelty (domestic violence) could lead to a woman’s assessment of ‘insanity’ and result in incarceration in the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. Combined with issues such as alcohol or puerperal mania (post-natal depression), the cruelty of their husbands was often...
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University of Western Australia
2019-08-01
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| Serier: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online adgang: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/3427280/Wallis-Driven-to-Insanity.pdf |
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