Mad with Freedom Deborah Potter Owens's storytelling highlights that the

Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced

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Lincecum's resourcefulness in the face of shortages included weaving spanish moss into blankets and investigating the papermaking potential of milkweed

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Mad with Freedom Deborah Potter Owens's storytelling highlights that theThe use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Elodie Edwards Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual