Annotated Bibliography
Whitaker, R. (2010). Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. Basic Books; Secondary Education Edition.
Mad in America was written as an argument against the modern medical treatment of schizophrenic patients. While this isn’t directly relevant to our research, there is a fair amount of information in the book about the treatment of the mentally ill in the late 19th and early 20th century. This book’s reference and comparison shows the incompetency of psychological treatment of the time of Beloved.
The History of Mental Illness: From "Skull Drills" to "Happy Pills" (2010, January 1). Retrieved October 14, 2014.
In this article it shows the harsh treatment that the few who sought outside treatment faced. Patients would receive unethical and in many times more harmful treatment from unqualified individuals. Using knowledge from the book along with the realities presented in the article, it confirms why none of the characters in Beloved would seek treatment.
Stiles, A. (n.d.). Go rest, young man. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
Anne Stiles is able to give a descriptive idea of what life was like for a mentally ill man in the time of Beloved. From this article we were able to see that men were encouraged to engage in heavy manual labor to cure their anxiety problems. This related to the novel’s portrayal of men’s hidden anxiety as shown in Paul D.
Calisle, R. (n.d.). Handbook to Life in America, Volume 3.
The main information taken from this article was about the expectations of women in the 19th century and the ideas around pregnancy at the time. Women were expected to continue their household work throughout their entire pregnancy but to also stay out of sight of the public. This handbook was very helpful for information about gender roles, but it did not specify the differences of race.
Theriot, N., & Theriot, N. (1996). Mothers and daughters in nineteenth-century America: The biosocial construction of femininity ([Rev. ed.). Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.
This book was a great accompaniment to the novel due to its very realistic depiction of mother-daughter roles in the 19th century. The book states that mothers have to teach their daughters what their role is in life as they grow up, which often shows the daughters their mother’s dissatisfaction with life.
Barney, W. (2008). A Companion to 19th-Century America (pp. 57-59). Wiley.
The last portion of this book describes the role reversal of genders after the Civil War. What we found was especially pertinent to Beloved was the gender reversal between the North and the South. Barney notes that while the South has stereotypically been viewed as hardworking, burly men that this changed as the South became more romanticized.
Ducas, Tyler. "Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Word or Less."Tylerducas.blogspot.com. Blogspot, 8 Sept. 2013. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. I choose this photo for the Gender Roles tab because it shows Rosa Parks sitting in front of a white man on the bus which in that time was not the right thing to do and it really shows how gender and race plays into society.
"Beloved." Productimages. Notw, 10 Feb. 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. I choose this image for the bibliography page because it is the simple quote for this page. Its simple and sums up the project.
"Beloved." CliffNotes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5 Aug. 2009. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. This site really helped me with the gender roles page and how gender roles plays into the novel 'Beloved'.
Crow, Jim. JimCrowsharecropping. Blogspot, 6 May 2010. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. This is the site for the bottom right hand image on the Gender Roles page. I liked and used this photo because it showed slaves working in the cotton fields with mostly men but a few women as well.
Sommerville, D. (2004). Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
This source was able to give ample information about two of our main topics discussed on our website. It was able to give better insight into both Sethe’s sexual and race trauma.
Fraser, R. (n.d.). Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America: From northern woman to plantation mistress.
This book gave an interesting look into the personal lives of women living in the nineteenth century. This source was especially important to us due to the sensitive nature of some of the topics in Beloved that come also appear in Gender, Race, and Family.
Whitaker, R. (2010). Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. Basic Books; Secondary Education Edition.
Mad in America was written as an argument against the modern medical treatment of schizophrenic patients. While this isn’t directly relevant to our research, there is a fair amount of information in the book about the treatment of the mentally ill in the late 19th and early 20th century. This book’s reference and comparison shows the incompetency of psychological treatment of the time of Beloved.
The History of Mental Illness: From "Skull Drills" to "Happy Pills" (2010, January 1). Retrieved October 14, 2014.
In this article it shows the harsh treatment that the few who sought outside treatment faced. Patients would receive unethical and in many times more harmful treatment from unqualified individuals. Using knowledge from the book along with the realities presented in the article, it confirms why none of the characters in Beloved would seek treatment.
Stiles, A. (n.d.). Go rest, young man. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
Anne Stiles is able to give a descriptive idea of what life was like for a mentally ill man in the time of Beloved. From this article we were able to see that men were encouraged to engage in heavy manual labor to cure their anxiety problems. This related to the novel’s portrayal of men’s hidden anxiety as shown in Paul D.
Calisle, R. (n.d.). Handbook to Life in America, Volume 3.
The main information taken from this article was about the expectations of women in the 19th century and the ideas around pregnancy at the time. Women were expected to continue their household work throughout their entire pregnancy but to also stay out of sight of the public. This handbook was very helpful for information about gender roles, but it did not specify the differences of race.
Theriot, N., & Theriot, N. (1996). Mothers and daughters in nineteenth-century America: The biosocial construction of femininity ([Rev. ed.). Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.
This book was a great accompaniment to the novel due to its very realistic depiction of mother-daughter roles in the 19th century. The book states that mothers have to teach their daughters what their role is in life as they grow up, which often shows the daughters their mother’s dissatisfaction with life.
Barney, W. (2008). A Companion to 19th-Century America (pp. 57-59). Wiley.
The last portion of this book describes the role reversal of genders after the Civil War. What we found was especially pertinent to Beloved was the gender reversal between the North and the South. Barney notes that while the South has stereotypically been viewed as hardworking, burly men that this changed as the South became more romanticized.
Ducas, Tyler. "Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Word or Less."Tylerducas.blogspot.com. Blogspot, 8 Sept. 2013. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. I choose this photo for the Gender Roles tab because it shows Rosa Parks sitting in front of a white man on the bus which in that time was not the right thing to do and it really shows how gender and race plays into society.
"Beloved." Productimages. Notw, 10 Feb. 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. I choose this image for the bibliography page because it is the simple quote for this page. Its simple and sums up the project.
"Beloved." CliffNotes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5 Aug. 2009. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. This site really helped me with the gender roles page and how gender roles plays into the novel 'Beloved'.
Crow, Jim. JimCrowsharecropping. Blogspot, 6 May 2010. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. This is the site for the bottom right hand image on the Gender Roles page. I liked and used this photo because it showed slaves working in the cotton fields with mostly men but a few women as well.
Sommerville, D. (2004). Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
This source was able to give ample information about two of our main topics discussed on our website. It was able to give better insight into both Sethe’s sexual and race trauma.
Fraser, R. (n.d.). Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America: From northern woman to plantation mistress.
This book gave an interesting look into the personal lives of women living in the nineteenth century. This source was especially important to us due to the sensitive nature of some of the topics in Beloved that come also appear in Gender, Race, and Family.