Introduction: Heroism Is Our Only Alternative -- Women of the Asylum: First-Person Accounts of Women Hospitalized in American Psychiatric Institutions, 1840-1945 -- Mothers on Trial: Custody and the Baby M Case -- The Men's Auxiliary: Protecting the Rule of the Fathers -- A Wolf in Feminist Clothing -- Feminism and Illness -- Marcia Rimland's Deadly Dilemma -- A Woman's Right to Self-Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos -- Sister, Fear Has No Place Here