Re-Placing the Madwoman: Irene Vilar's The Ladies' Gallery

Driven in no small part by the rise of disability studies in the humanities, this moment of potential "opening" of the space of subject also coincided with a global effort to remove the physical barriers inherent in institutional mental health care.2 This shift in perspective allows us to...

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Published in:Frontiers (Boulder) 2010-09, Vol.31 (3), p.103-115
Main Author: Kanost, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Anthropology, Cultural - education
Anthropology, Cultural - history
Authors
Blogs
Braidotti, Rosi
Cognition Disorders - ethnology
Cognition Disorders - history
Criticism and interpretation
Disability
Disabled Persons - education
Disabled Persons - history
Disabled Persons - legislation & jurisprudence
Disabled Persons - psychology
Emotions
Feminism and literature
Feminist literature
Freedom of speech
History of Medicine
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Hospitalization
Illnesses
Internet
Life Change Events - history
Literature - history
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - ethnology
Mental Disorders - history
Metaphor
Multimedia
Patients
Radio
Society
Sontag, Susan (1933-2004)
Space
Subjectivity
Vilar, Irene
Women's Health - ethnology
Women's Health - history
Women's Rights - economics
Women's Rights - education
Women's Rights - history
Women's Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Womens health
Works
Writers
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Summary:Driven in no small part by the rise of disability studies in the humanities, this moment of potential "opening" of the space of subject also coincided with a global effort to remove the physical barriers inherent in institutional mental health care.2 This shift in perspective allows us to revisit the madwoman's attic, reassessing how to "place" mental illness and subjectivity. The international Mad Pride movement, for example, reclaims open, public spaces for mad people during its often flamboyant demonstrations and also appropriates intellectual space through its Web presence.50 The growing number of public radio broadcasts, 'zines, blogs, and multimedia sharing initiated by international communities of current and former psychiatric hospital patients participates further in this blurring of the boundaries between inside and outside.51 An Internet-based vendor now offers the world a t-shirt emblazoned with the words I am the madwoman in the attic and an illustration of a deranged looking Victorian woman.
ISSN:0160-9009
1536-0334
1536-0334
DOI:10.1353/fro.2010.a402748