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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Disability histories
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Disability histories (Series)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mrs. Anna Miesse, Local Doctor's Wife -- The Questions of 1855 -- Miesse v. Miesse, -- The Questions of 1856 -- Dr. Anna B. Ott, Local Doctress -- Anna Ott, Insane Asylum Inmate -- Anna Ott, Economic Agent -- Remembering Anna Ott. |
| Summary |
"Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life. Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her. Historical and institutional structures, like laws that liberalized divorce and women's ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women's lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures of the time shaped one woman-and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ott, Anna Miesse, 1819-1893.
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Ott, Anna Miesse, 1819-1893. |
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Physicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Physicians' spouses. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Women physicians. |
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Abused wives -- United States -- Biography.
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Abused wives. |
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Divorce -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Divorce. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States.
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention. |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nielsen, Kim E.. Money, marriage, and madness Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020] 9780252043147 (DLC) 2020005351 |
| ISBN |
0252052021 electronic book |
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0252043146 |
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9780252043147 |
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0252085019 |
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9780252085017 |
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9780252052026 (electronic book) |
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