Under Nielsen's penetrating eye, Ott's story illuminates the messy historical forces that shaped nineteenth-century women's encounters with money, marriage, and madness. Nielsen brings impassioned analysis to the ways that ableism, patriarchy, violence, and money shaped the life of one reputedly mad woman. "The book brilliantly renders the complex life of Dr. A wonderful read." - Indiana Magazine of History A Disability History of the United States pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell US history through the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lived it. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, this is the first book to place the experiences of people. As Nielsen tells Ott's life story, she examines the relationship between interlocking power structures-race, gender, class, ability, and settler colonialism-and personal circumstances. Nielsen - Author Erin Bennett - Narrator. "Kim Nielsen's Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott is a brief, beautifully written, and wholly original biography. a powerful way of backing into the story of a life that would otherwise be completely lost." - Annals of Iowa "Nielsen brilliantly contrasts the differences that occurred once Ott swiveled from doctor to patient. Reviews"Ott's story is both compelling in itself and revealing about the broader society she inhabited." - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel People with disabilities - United States - History, Sociology of disability - United States - History, People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc.
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