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 Submitted by Chris O'Neill
+.	The mid-to-late 19th century was steeply divided by gender with insanity and morality being intertwined with sexuality, apart from the social history that saw men as the more “sexually driven” than women, why was there not more exploration of male reproductive systems as causes for mental illness especially with the push from the American Female Moral Reform Society?
+.	Religious differences were cited as the reason for many of these women being committed, what, if any, were the doctor’s reasonings for “treating” these women?
+-Janis Shurtleff
+) In the foreword of Women of the Asylum written by Phyllis Chesler, she mentions that the women in the asylum, "feared, correctly," that they would go mad because of the brutality of existing in that space. (xiii) Was this a similar experience that men in the asylum had? Or was this thought just continuing to play into the thought that women were "more susceptible" to madness and admittance to asylums (as we've seen in past readings).
+) The authors noted that with the physical expansion of westward migration, the expansion of "acceptable female behavior" was expanded at the same time (20). Other events changed the role that women had in society as well. As what was accepted grew, do we think that this new view/role of women translated into a higher or lower admission of women into asylums?
+Submitted by Carson Berrier (I pledge…)
+Several women were committed by their husbands and family for having different religious beliefs than them. Was there a religious revival going on that was causing this heated reaction?
+What impact did the women's suffrage movement have on asylum care? Were the superintendents open to the idea of patient rights and reform?
+Submitted by Allison Love (I pledge...)
+) In the case of Elizabeth Packard, with her husband essentially permitting her kidnapping and then placing her in an asylum with little to no intention to remove her, could he be seen as insane? He irrationally admitted his wife, who had bore 6 of his children, into an insane asylum on the basis of differing beliefs. To add to that, he was legally not allowed to admit her again but still attempted to. How was he able to do all of that without himself being questioned for mental stability?
+) When women were sent to the insane asylum, as seen with both Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Stone’s account, they were not told they were in an insane asylum. While Nellie knew where she was, Elizabeth did not. Why were they not told where they were? Did the physicians worry that them knowing would create backlash? Was this consistent with all admitted patients and not just women?
+Submitted by Mallory Karnei (I pledge…)