Plan: Books about gender, madness, and religion
5. 
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,424 ratings
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Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. 3.91 avg rating — 301 ratings
19. 
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.05 avg rating — 606 ratings 20. 
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body 3.77 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,063 ratings
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
by:
Norah Vincent
3.39 avg rating — 3,880 ratings 
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings 
24. 
Parley After Life - DIY Guide to Death and other Taxes
by:
Robby Miller
3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings 24. 
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Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
by:
Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
by:
Ian Tinny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
37. 
The Madness of King George (Frank Chalk Book 3)
by:
Frank Chalk
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 37. 
God Hates Flags! Buy This Book or Go to Hell.: With an Introduction by God
by:
Lin Xun
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 41. 
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
by:
Rachel Reiland
3.96 avg rating — 7,368 ratings 
43. 
Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
by:
Alice Jamieson
4.17 avg rating — 1,564 ratings 
51. 
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by:
Judith Flanders
4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 53. 
Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
by:
Ruth Brandon
3.54 avg rating — 300 ratings 54. 
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
by:
Darby Penney
3.69 avg rating — 3,977 ratings 
58. 
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865: The Diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon 3.85 avg rating — 2,934 ratings
60. 
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
by:
Robert Whitaker
4.18 avg rating — 2,580 ratings 
62. 
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by:
Erving Goffman
4.15 avg rating — 1,556 ratings 63. 
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by:
Michel Foucault
4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings 
65. 
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women 4.20 avg rating — 852 ratings
66. 
The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography
by:
Virginia Burrus
3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings 67. 
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Memoir of John Conolly: Comprising a Sketch of the Treatment of the Insane in Europe and America
by:
James Clark
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 71. 
The Face of Madness: Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography
by:
Sander L. Gilman
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings 72.
The construction and government of lunatic asylums and hospitals for the insane (Psychiatric monograph series)
by:
John Conolly
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 73.
The Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints
by:
John Conolly
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Treatise on Insanity: Responsibility in Mental Disease: Two Works Series C Medical Psychology. Vol. III
by:
Henry Maudsley
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
80. 
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
by:
Elaine Tyler May
3.91 avg rating — 1,563 ratings