Representation of Gender and Mental Illness in Literature and Film

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper” (1892)—post-partum depression and the rest cure prescribed for her

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)—clinical depression and the electrical shock prescribed for her

Jane Campion, An Angel at my Table (1990)—Janet Frame and lobotomy prescribed for her

Louise Glück, -- Anorexia coped with by poetry writing