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A Feminist Reading of The Yellow w totallypaper In the late nineteenth century, after the American social and scotch shift commonly referred to as the Industrial Revolution had changed the very textile of American society, increased attention was paid to the psychological disorders that apparently had turbulent up out of the new smokestacks and skyscrapers in urban populations (Bauer, 131). These disorders were presumed to have been born(p) out of the exhaustion and wear and tear of industrial society (Bauer, 131-132). An provable effect of these new disorders was a slew of physicians and psychiatrists advocating one sort of therapeutic or another, although the rest cure popularized by the physician S. Weir Mitchell was the most embraced (Bauer, 131 Saur, 151-152). However, piece the rest cure for men involved physical exercise and unoccupied activities, the cure for women was a suffocating slice of seclusion, bed rest, and no clever activity (Bauer, 131). Charlotte Per kins Gilman, a renowned feminist and author, was one of the women affected with ...a puckish and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia.., which was commonly termed as neurasthenia (Gilman, 348-349). However, sooner than cure her, Mitchells rest cure nearly drove her insane. As a result of her maddening experience away from writing and almost all intellectual thought, she wrote her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper not ...to drive the great unwashed crazy, but instead to ...save people from being driven crazy (Gilman, 349). Although her social occasion in writing the story is clear, one can not champion but wonder if she was motivated solely by her protest to nineteenth century medical practice or by her protest to the licit and socia... ... Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 130-132. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Dale M. Bauer. Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 41-58. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. where fore I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper? The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Dale M. Bauer. Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 348-349. Mitchell, S. Weir. From wearing away and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked. The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Dale M. Bauer. Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 134-141. Saur, Prudence B. From Maternity A Book for Every Wife and Mother. The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Dale M. Bauer. Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 151- 155. Williams, William C. disused Doc Rivers. The Doctor Stories. Ed. Robert Coles. New York New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1984. 13-41.