The Yellow Wallpaper: A Story of Hysteria

In the mid 20th century, hysteria was seen as a diagnosable illness that they would project on women when women just wanted to be humans. If a woman had any type of independence whatsoever around her own identity or desires or wishes, she was labeled as medically hysterical. You're a woman and this character in the story as she writes it kind of believes it. She's conditioned in this highly misogynistic and patriarchal society to believe all this shit because it's like my husband's a doctor. He's an expert. So if he's telling me that I'm hysterical, I have to listen to him. It's written from this woman who's writing secretly because if her husband catches her