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This article discusses the unexpected roles played by elite women in the operation of private mental asylums in nineteenth-century France.
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Most scholarship focuses on large public psychiatric institutions run by men. This article examines little-studied private institutions and shows how nineteenth-century gender values actually contributed to women's authority in an unexpected setting.
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This page is a summary of: Women Working "Amidst the Mad": Domesticity as Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century Paris, French Historical Studies, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2822721.
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