NON FICTION
\n1860: As the clash between the states rol ls slowly to a boil\, Elizabeth Packard\, housewife and mother of six\, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened - by Elizabeth's intellect\, independenc e\, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a pl an to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning\, he has her comm itted to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois Sta te Hospital in Jacksonville\, Illinois\, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarl and\, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment\, but to keep them in line - conveniently labeled " crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their f reedom and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness\, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is abo ut to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have n othing to lose...
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