women into asylums
Why were women put into asylums? 18th Centuary.
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Women were also admitted to private asylums on slender evidence, notably those who contravened expectations concerning their modesty, conduct, duties or behaviour or those who would not bend to their husbands' will, even when husbands were themselves making extraordinary demands that could be deemed crazy.
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By the nineteenth century increasingly large numbers of women were being confined in public and private asylums, thus reversing the previous situation as female admission in some institutions overtook those of men. Not only subject to cultural and social pressures, women were deemed likely to fall prey to disorders of the mind related to their biological vulnerability and the female life cycle, marked by their susceptibility to a range of psychiatric conditions from adolescence and the establishment of menstruation, through childbearing, aging and finally menopause.
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warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/trade_in_luna...
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It was 1928 when the Equal Franchise Act was introduced to give all women over the age of 21 the right to vote. This Act increased the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million. In the 1970s, the Representation of the People Act 1969 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, with effect from 1970 in the UK.
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Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA)
This is a law that applies to England and Wales which allows people to be detained in hospital (sectioned) if they have a mental health disorder and need treatment. You can only be kept in hospital if certain conditions are met.
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www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sectioni...
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haveing undertaken a small piece of research on women and sectioning when i was at college, its safe to say that the experience and abuse of rights still give cause for concern.
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ai/gimp
women into asylums
Why were women put into asylums? 18th Centuary.
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Women were also admitted to private asylums on slender evidence, notably those who contravened expectations concerning their modesty, conduct, duties or behaviour or those who would not bend to their husbands' will, even when husbands were themselves making extraordinary demands that could be deemed crazy.
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By the nineteenth century increasingly large numbers of women were being confined in public and private asylums, thus reversing the previous situation as female admission in some institutions overtook those of men. Not only subject to cultural and social pressures, women were deemed likely to fall prey to disorders of the mind related to their biological vulnerability and the female life cycle, marked by their susceptibility to a range of psychiatric conditions from adolescence and the establishment of menstruation, through childbearing, aging and finally menopause.
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warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/trade_in_luna...
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It was 1928 when the Equal Franchise Act was introduced to give all women over the age of 21 the right to vote. This Act increased the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million. In the 1970s, the Representation of the People Act 1969 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, with effect from 1970 in the UK.
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Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA)
This is a law that applies to England and Wales which allows people to be detained in hospital (sectioned) if they have a mental health disorder and need treatment. You can only be kept in hospital if certain conditions are met.
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www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sectioni...
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haveing undertaken a small piece of research on women and sectioning when i was at college, its safe to say that the experience and abuse of rights still give cause for concern.
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ai/gimp