"There is both honor and grace in these strong and beautiful essays. This isn't feminism for cowards. Chesler stands up for real women in trouble, in pain, hurt by patriarchy's cruel domination".—Andrea Dworkin [women][political][history] 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—Men's Auxiliary: Protecting the Rule of the Fathers—Wolf in Feminist Clothing—Feminism and Illness—Marcia Rimland's Deadly Dilemma—Woman's Right to Self-Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos—Sister, Fear Has No Place Here