Problem: Why is Elizabeth locked up in the asylum? What tactics did Elizabeth employs to protest her treatment throughout the book? Which techniques were most effective for her? What strategies would you turn to in her place? What strategies do you think would work the best today? Novel reading, masturbation, and irregular menstrual cycles are a few of the many reasons that women were admitted to asylums in Elizabeth's time. Which, if any, of these justifications stood out to you? Why? How has our understanding of these causes of insanity changed?