"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I read this short story for my course at Carleton on hysteria. It is a very well written description of a descent into madness, caused largely by condescending men who think the best cure for a woman, delicate creature that she us, is rest and lack of intellectual stimulation. Fragile and silly little girl, they think, for feeling depressed after having a baby.