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A review by barberchicago_books
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Wow.
Nonfiction written in a narrative style. Intensely and impeccably researched. Elizabeth Packard’s story is one that gets more harrowing by the day. She is deemed insane and thrown into an asylum simply because she is intelligent, disagrees with her husband, and speaks her mind. Yet throughout her own mistreatment and her observations and interventions at the abuse of her fellow women, Packard NEVER QUITS. In fact, she is inspired to seek help, raise her voice, and change the system. And this didn’t happen overnight. Everywhere, there were obstacles: men, locked doors, laws, prejudice. But Packard used her writing skills, evidence that she kept in journals, and sheer determination to knock down these barriers to justice and affected change for many women and mentally ill people.
This is what many Black women and women of color are doing today. We need more women like Elizabeth Packard to join the fight against systemic inequity: White women who are willing to raise their voices beside their educated women of color & LQBTQIA folx to seek help, raise our voices, and change the system.
THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE is not only just one story that needed to be told, it is a blueprint on how to continue the fight against injustice of any kind today. Bravo, Kate Moore.
Nonfiction written in a narrative style. Intensely and impeccably researched. Elizabeth Packard’s story is one that gets more harrowing by the day. She is deemed insane and thrown into an asylum simply because she is intelligent, disagrees with her husband, and speaks her mind. Yet throughout her own mistreatment and her observations and interventions at the abuse of her fellow women, Packard NEVER QUITS. In fact, she is inspired to seek help, raise her voice, and change the system. And this didn’t happen overnight. Everywhere, there were obstacles: men, locked doors, laws, prejudice. But Packard used her writing skills, evidence that she kept in journals, and sheer determination to knock down these barriers to justice and affected change for many women and mentally ill people.
This is what many Black women and women of color are doing today. We need more women like Elizabeth Packard to join the fight against systemic inequity: White women who are willing to raise their voices beside their educated women of color & LQBTQIA folx to seek help, raise our voices, and change the system.
THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE is not only just one story that needed to be told, it is a blueprint on how to continue the fight against injustice of any kind today. Bravo, Kate Moore.