![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, their flight into madness was equally doomed: the Victorian asylum was nothing but a mirror of Victorian society sewing, cleaning and doing the laundry were considered the primary forms of treatment. Showalter begins with Victorian England, exposing the roots of hysteria-that culture's most common ""female malady""-in the struggle by intelligent women to escape from a stultifying environment. A gender analysis and feminist critique of madness in Britain from 1830 to the present, in which Showalter paints a convincing picture of how cultural attitudes about the proper role of the female shaped the diagnosis and treatment of insane women, often ensnaring them in a bind that offered no way out of the asylum. ![]()
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