El policía, el juez, la familia y el posadero o cómo algunos porteños entendieron de demencias y locuras. Buenos Aires 1870-1890

Abstract

This paper explores the social experiences of some women who were socially identified as insane and admitted as such in the asylum of the city of Buenos Aires. It also examines the participation of some contemporaries in the construction of social meanings of madness between 1870 and 1890. In doing so, it registers the definition of frameworks of urban tolerance and social exclusion as a process that depended on the elites but also on other social sectors.