This source is a 1969 letter from Carleton College President John William Nason to Carleton Student Association President, Stephen K. Melges. In the letter Nason responds to Melges regarding arguments pro the switch to co-ed housing on campus, and generally disapproves of the idea. The letter was sent to all members of the Committee on Social Policy.
Ruvtz-Rees writes about her experience in the insane asylum in the 19th century. Although she speaks positively about her time in the aslyum, she calls for more home treatments, as she believes "mental disease is infectious." This idea, along with the development of treatments such as the rest cure, begins to make the home a place of imprisonment rather than an outside institution. It is then the family, not the asylum workers and nurses, that imprison the female body.
Moss' letter to Chopin reveals some of the ways in which Chopin's writing was important to the community of women. Her praise of Chopin's writing goes beyond the fictional and enlightens the ways in which Chopin's resistence affected other women who might not have had the same ability to pubically speak up.
