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You might try looking at Caroline Walker Bynum's Holy Feast, Holy Fast. I am not sure she deals directly with madness, but she combines several carefully nuanced approaches to the question of female asceticism to get beyond the reductionism of calling these women anorexic. Karen Jolly -- Dr. Karen Jolly Associate Professor, History University of Hawai`i at Manoa [log in to unmask] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%