This article examines how female immigrants were characterised inside the Yarra Bend Asylum in Melbourne, Victoria (Hospital for the Insane after 1905), once they slipped into the world of the institutionally 'hidden.' Forms of social difference inside colonial institutions for the insane were embedded in patient case records. This article argues that through a closer examination of cases of fe...

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There is no intention of reproducing the somewhat sensational trial of Gruiteau here. There were in that melo-dramatie proceeding a number of novel, startling, and inexplicable episodes, calculated to interest and instruct our insular mind, but, except in so far as these incidents may cast a lurid light upon the conduct and character of the accused, they shall not be included in this inquiry. I...

main theme a fascinating topic. In Renaissance Europe the insane were frequently at large. The Age of Enlightenment, coinciding with the increased growth of cities, seems to have led to their confinement?and to intensified ill-treatment. The account of these developments enables Dr. Foucault to imply that the role of the doctor as a magician and as the protagonist of society's attitudes to the ...