"Kim Nielsen's Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott is a brief, beautifully written, and wholly original biography. . . . As Nielsen tells Ott's life story, she examines the relationship between interlocking power structures--race, gender, class, ability, and settler colonialism--and personal circumstances. . . . A wonderful read." --Indiana Magazine of History "Nielsen brilliantly contrasts the differences that occurred once Ott swiveled from doctor to patient . . . a powerful way of backing into the story of a life that would otherwise be completely lost." --Annals of Iowa "Ott's story is both compelling in itself and revealing about the broader society she inhabited." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ”The book brilliantly renders the complex life of Dr. Anna Ott. Nielsen brings impassioned analysis to the ways that ableism, patriarchy, violence, and money shaped the life of one reputedly mad woman. Under Nielsen's penetrating eye, Ott's story illuminates the messy historical forces that shaped nineteenth-century women's encounters with money, marriage and madness.”-Susan Cahn, author of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport, Second Edition
