Revolution and Madness : Lives and Legends of Theroigne de Mericourt

ISBN-13: 9780860915973 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str.

Elisabeth Roudinesco; Martin Thom

Opis

Theroigne de Mericourt (1762-1817), a courageous woman who refused the sex-roles of her era, was a firebrand and rebel who found her life-passion in the revolutionary struggle. Though she fought, sabre-in-hand, for the Revolution, her rejection and persecution by both enemies and fellow revolutionaries provoked her to madness; she was institutionalized at age 31 and died in an asylum. Theroigne de Mericourt became a famous test-case for early psychiatry during the period of the birth of the asylum. In this biography, Roudinesco adds a new dimension to our understanding of early feminism and the birth of psychiatry.