Just finished reading the book "Evelyn" by Jason Mott. I feel a little hopeless

I feel like this is a story that can happen to any woman and the fact that it's based on a real person makes it even worse.<br><br>It's the story of Evelyn Oakley, a woman in the 1930s who was married to a doctor and was a nurse herself. She was a nurse at the local mental institution. The book is based on the real person who was known for her bravery and for standing up to the system. <br><br>What's terrible is that her husband, a man of science, is the one who eventually becomes abusive towards her. It's like he only sees her as a tool to get his hands on her. He has sex with her whenever he pleases. He even tries to make her get a hysterectomy even though she says no. He is a monster.<br><br>And the thing that gets me the most is that her husband's abuse is so bad that she has to go to a mental hospital for it. They see her as crazy, not him. They try to keep her there for a long time, saying that she is unfit for motherhood and needs to be institutionalized.<br><br>It's so depressing to think about a woman having to fight so hard to keep her children with her. And it's even more depressing that this happened to her husband. He was a doctor and a scientist and he didn't even see how much of a monster he was being. <br><br>The worst part is that it happened to a real woman and the book is a retelling of her story.<br><br>I hope that women today are better protected than they were in the 1930s.