Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen Paperback - 2024

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Author: Scanlon, Suzanne
ISBN: 9780593469101

by Suzanne Scanlon

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A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once.

When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother--feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain--she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to "crazy chick" and "madwoman" narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her.

Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others.

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Title Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
Author Suzanne Scanlon
Binding Paperback
Pages 368
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Vintage
Publication date 2024-04-16
Features Bibliography
ISBN 9780593469101 / 0593469100
Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
Dimensions 7.95 x 5.24 x 0.8 in (20.19 x 13.31 x 2.03 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Women - Mental health, Autobiographies
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023028089
Dewey Decimal Code B

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Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2024, Page 0

About the author

SUZANNE SCANLON is the author of the novels Promising Young Women and Her 37th Year, An Index. Her writing has appeared in Granta, BOMB Magazine, The Iowa Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places.

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