Book Club: Women's History Month

Book: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore is a narrative nonfiction book about Elizabeth Packard, a 19th-century woman who was wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her husband for disagreeing with him, and her subsequent fight for freedom and women's rights. The book details how, under the legal doctrine of coverture, a husband could have his wife institutionalized without a hearing, and how Elizabeth, finding herself among many other sane women in the asylum, fought to expose the injustice and advocate for mental health and women's rights.