New Historicism

New Historicism Project How did male doctors treat women? What was the overall attitude towards women and mental illness? The overall attitude that most men had against woman with mental illnesses is that it was mostly “caused by malfunctions of the reproductive organs” (Women and Doctors). The men of this time really didn’t treat it as serious as it should have been. They mostly told the women to get a lot of rest and …

…and what goes, they were dependent on man. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the woman was dependent on John because he always told her what was best for her in the story. She want to visit her cousin Henry but she says that John says, “he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow case as to let me have those stimulating people about now” (Gilman). As anyone can see many women were dependent on man.