This chapter analyses the messy impact of historical forces such as ableism, patriarchy, and institutionalization on Ott’s life. The justifying logic imbedded in her diagnosis and prescriptive institutionalization (re)wrote her life story—her past, her future, and how she would be remembered. The ableism undergirding Ott’s insanity diagnosis permeated legal, familial, and activist contexts both outside and inside the walls of medicine in the late nineteenth-century United States. The chapter then argues for biography as a powerful methodology to forefront lived experiences while simultaneously embedding those lived experiences in large-scale social and historical structures.
{"title":"Remembering Anna Ott","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses the messy impact of historical forces such as ableism, patriarchy, and institutionalization on Ott’s life. The justifying logic imbedded in her diagnosis and prescriptive institutionalization (re)wrote her life story—her past, her future, and how she would be remembered. The ableism undergirding Ott’s insanity diagnosis permeated legal, familial, and activist contexts both outside and inside the walls of medicine in the late nineteenth-century United States. The chapter then argues for biography as a powerful methodology to forefront lived experiences while simultaneously embedding those lived experiences in large-scale social and historical structures.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121927090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using questions unanswerable due to limited historical sources, this chapter builds on the limited facts surrounding Anna’s second marriage. This archival void, like many archival voids, is not simply random or due only to family scandals. The chapter consider the methodological dilemmas posed by such voids; and urges historians to avoid replicating the power structures of the past by presenting such voids as natural and inevitable.
{"title":"The Questions of 1856","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.8","url":null,"abstract":"Using questions unanswerable due to limited historical sources, this chapter builds on the limited facts surrounding Anna’s second marriage. This archival void, like many archival voids, is not simply random or due only to family scandals. The chapter consider the methodological dilemmas posed by such voids; and urges historians to avoid replicating the power structures of the past by presenting such voids as natural and inevitable.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115123145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane was a significant economic enterprise whose daily workings generated immense income for the local community. Even while an asylum inmate, Ott remained a consumer of local businesses. The economies inside the asylum were highly tied to and interwoven with economic systems outside of the asylum. This chapter argues that nineteenth-century insane asylums altered communities. They became huge economic markets, provided goods to the local economy, created employment opportunities and also provided laborers, generated a demand for attorneys and new legal processes, and medicalized behaviors sometimes not previously considered pathological.
{"title":"Anna Ott, Economic Agent","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.11","url":null,"abstract":"The Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane was a significant economic enterprise whose daily workings generated immense income for the local community. Even while an asylum inmate, Ott remained a consumer of local businesses. The economies inside the asylum were highly tied to and interwoven with economic systems outside of the asylum. This chapter argues that nineteenth-century insane asylums altered communities. They became huge economic markets, provided goods to the local economy, created employment opportunities and also provided laborers, generated a demand for attorneys and new legal processes, and medicalized behaviors sometimes not previously considered pathological.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121500042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1856, Jonathan and Anna Miesse divorced after he accused her of gender deviance, cross-dressing, sexual impropriety, and neglect of their children. Evidence suggests that the couple colluded to agree upon Anna’s guilt in order to divorce. For Jonathan and other husbands, accusations of sexual infamy and unwomanliness served as effective strategies. Not simply an example of victimhood, Anna left the marriage with significant financial resources in a decade in which early women’s rights activists were only beginning to prod state legislators to pass laws enabling women to own and control their own property.
{"title":"Miesse v. Miesse, 1856","authors":"Kim E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.7","url":null,"abstract":"In 1856, Jonathan and Anna Miesse divorced after he accused her of gender deviance, cross-dressing, sexual impropriety, and neglect of their children. Evidence suggests that the couple colluded to agree upon Anna’s guilt in order to divorce. For Jonathan and other husbands, accusations of sexual infamy and unwomanliness served as effective strategies. Not simply an example of victimhood, Anna left the marriage with significant financial resources in a decade in which early women’s rights activists were only beginning to prod state legislators to pass laws enabling women to own and control their own property.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128215353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In May 1873, George Ott admitted Anna to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane. The prescriptive results of her stigmatized medical diagnosis included and went beyond institutionalization to include the legal processes of guardianship and divorce. The forceful combination of legal and medical authority kept her at the Mendota Asylum while George divorced her and until her death in 1893. This chapter analyses the messy array of historical forces whirling around Ott’s institutionalization to complicate the ableist pathologization of her life and the power of diagnosis. It explores methodologies and questions historians should consider while using medical case files.
{"title":"Anna Ott, Insane Asylum Inmate","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.10","url":null,"abstract":"In May 1873, George Ott admitted Anna to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane. The prescriptive results of her stigmatized medical diagnosis included and went beyond institutionalization to include the legal processes of guardianship and divorce. The forceful combination of legal and medical authority kept her at the Mendota Asylum while George divorced her and until her death in 1893. This chapter analyses the messy array of historical forces whirling around Ott’s institutionalization to complicate the ableist pathologization of her life and the power of diagnosis. It explores methodologies and questions historians should consider while using medical case files.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126764319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1856, by establishing herself as physician, marrying George Ott and then moving to Madison, Wisconsin, the newly renamed Mrs. Dr. Anna B. Ott transformed herself. Instead of a local doctor’s wife, instead of an impugned divorcee, Anna became a successful physician and property owner. Very quickly, however, the Ott marriage became very violent and Anna twice attempted to divorce George. This chapter places Ott’s early career in the context of women’s property laws, understandings of marital violence, the growing power of and challenges to institutions for the insane, and the activism of suffragists and women such as Elizabeth Packard.
1856年，安娜·b·奥特(Anna B. Ott)成为了一名医生，嫁给了乔治·奥特(George Ott)，然后搬到了威斯康星州的麦迪逊(Madison)。安娜不再是当地医生的妻子，也不再是一个饱受指责的离婚者，而是成为了一名成功的医生和财产所有者。然而，很快，奥特的婚姻变得非常暴力，安娜两次试图与乔治离婚。这一章将奥特的早期职业生涯置于妇女财产法的背景下，对婚姻暴力的理解，精神病院日益增长的权力和挑战，以及女权主义者和伊丽莎白·帕卡德等女性的激进主义。
{"title":"Dr. Anna B. Ott, Local Doctress","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.9","url":null,"abstract":"In 1856, by establishing herself as physician, marrying George Ott and then moving to Madison, Wisconsin, the newly renamed Mrs. Dr. Anna B. Ott transformed herself. Instead of a local doctor’s wife, instead of an impugned divorcee, Anna became a successful physician and property owner. Very quickly, however, the Ott marriage became very violent and Anna twice attempted to divorce George. This chapter places Ott’s early career in the context of women’s property laws, understandings of marital violence, the growing power of and challenges to institutions for the insane, and the activism of suffragists and women such as Elizabeth Packard.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126741033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter relays the limited information available about Ott’s early life, and focuses on her live as the wife of Dr. Jonathan Miesse in Chillicothe, Ohio. The household of this small-town physician and his wife, the household in which their children grew, was complicated, unhappy, and sometimes ugly. Jonathan filed for divorce in 1849, after twelve years of marriage, but withdrew his application within two months, and attempted a separation agreement in 1853. He again filed for divorce in late 1855. This chapter focuses on marriage laws and the contrast between marriage ideals and realities.
{"title":"Mrs. Anna Miesse, Local Doctor’s Wife","authors":"K. E. Nielsen","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv137971j.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137971j.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter relays the limited information available about Ott’s early life, and focuses on her live as the wife of Dr. Jonathan Miesse in Chillicothe, Ohio. The household of this small-town physician and his wife, the household in which their children grew, was complicated, unhappy, and sometimes ugly. Jonathan filed for divorce in 1849, after twelve years of marriage, but withdrew his application within two months, and attempted a separation agreement in 1853. He again filed for divorce in late 1855. This chapter focuses on marriage laws and the contrast between marriage ideals and realities.","PeriodicalId":359282,"journal":{"name":"Money, Marriage, and Madness","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130269543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：