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A Feminist Reading of The Yellow Wallpaper In the late nineteenth deoxycytidine monophosphate, after the American social and economic faulting commonly referred to as the Industrial Revolution had changed the very fabric of American society, increased attention was paid to the psychological disorders that apparently had steamed up come on of the new smokestacks and skyscrapers in urban populations (Bauer, 131). These disorders were presumed to have been born out of the exhaustion and wear and tear of industrial society (Bauer, 131-132). An obvious assemble of these new disorders was a slew of physicians and psychiatrists advocating one sort of remediation or another, although the rilievo cure popularized by the physician S. Weir Mitchell was the most embraced (Bauer, 131 Saur, 151-152). However, while the rest cure for men involved physical exercise and leisure activities, the cure for women was a suffocating slice of seclusion, bed rest, and no smart exertion (Bauer, 131) . Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a renowned feminist and author, was one of the women affected with ...a severe and continual nervous breakdown tending to melancholia.., which was commonly termed as neurasthenia (Gilman, 348-349). However, rather than cure her, Mitchells rest cure nearly drove her insane. As a end of her maddening experience away from writing and almost all intellectual thought, she wrote her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper not ...to drive people crazy, nevertheless instead to ...save people from being driven crazy (Gilman, 349). Although her purpose in writing the story is clear, one can not help scarce wonder if she was motivated solely by her protest to nineteenth century medical practice or by her protest to the legal and socia... ... capital of Massachusetts/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, Charlo tte Perkins. Why 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 Wear 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 phonograph recording for Every Wife and Mother. The Yellow Wallpaper. Ed. Dale M. Bauer. Boston/New York Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. 151- 155. Williams, William C. Old commercialism Rivers. The Doctor Stories. Ed. Robert Coles. New York New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1984. 13-41.