Asylums 2: Elizabeth Packard & the Fight for Married Women’s Rights
05/15/22 • 22 min
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Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her powerful voice. And now, he had taken her children from her.
Elizabeth Packard was a fighter. And there was no way she was going to lay down for this fight for her children and for the rights of married women across the United States.
Recommended Reading:
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Great Drama by Elizabeth Packard
Marital Power Exemplified by Elizabeth Packard
Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her powerful voice. And now, he had taken her children from her.
Elizabeth Packard was a fighter. And there was no way she was going to lay down for this fight for her children and for the rights of married women across the United States.
Recommended Reading:
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The Great Drama by Elizabeth Packard
Marital Power Exemplified by Elizabeth Packard
Previous Episode
Asylums 1: Elizabeth Packard and the Weaponization of Women’s Mental Health
2 RecommendationsSoon after waking up one morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a 40-year-old mother of six, was ambushed by two doctors who broke into her room. Her husband Theophilus had been threatening to commit her to an asylum for quite a while. And now he was finally making good on his promise.
Recommended Reading:
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
Next Episode
Asylums 3: Nellie Bly, Undercover Whistleblower
2 RecommendationsIn 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover at Blackwell’s Asylum to expose its use as a holding pen for different or defiant women, and to reveal the horrors inside.
Recommended Reading:
Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly
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