Creator: Anita C. Wilson
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 828.803
List Price: $65.00
Price: $158.82
Review Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Sophia Holland / St. Martin's Press:
Creator: Karen Reed Green
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1987
Review Glimpses Into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women / Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory:
Review Memoirs of my nervous illness:In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman. " Daniel Paul Schreber began Memoirs of my Nervous Illness in February 1900 while confined in an asylum, as part of an appeal for release. Schreber, second son (the first committed suicide) of an abusive father, was at the peak of a brilliant career in Leipzig when he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Saxon High Court of Appeals. [+]Alas, the stress of his new job proved too much for him, and before long he was hearing voices and feeling suicidal. Within weeks he was committed, having rapidly descended into madness, and was placed under the care of Dr. Paul Emil Flechsig. From the start, Schreber struggled to make sense of what he was seeing and hearing, and in fact Memoirs is so lucid and self-aware, so internally consistent and insightful, that he was released on its strength. Still, reading this man's prose is a lesson in subjective reality, by turns funny and terrifying. I existed frequently without a stomach. In the case of any other human being this would have resulted in natural pus formation with an inevitably fatal outcome; but the food pulp could not damage my body because all impure matter in it was soaked up again by the rays. As Christianity alone could not explain what seemed to be happening to him, Schreber pieced together a complex theology involving a divided God with dark and light incarnations, whose "rays" and "nerves" interacted in various ways with humans. God was also his personal tormentor, in league with Flechsig to commit "soul-murder" by manipulating his nerves. Further, Schreber believed that he was being literally "unmanned" so that God could sexually violate him and conceive a new human race: "But as soon as I am alone with God. I must continually or at least at certain times strive to give divine rays the impression of a woman in the height of sexual delight. " Schreber had a hard time believing in the "fleeting-improvised-men" who flitted in and out of his life, and grew convinced that he was the only human left in a world of shadows. But he did know that something was wrong. He would hear the birds in the asylum's garden ask him, over and over, "Are you not ashamed?" And he was aware that his bellowing, banging on the piano, and other bodily manifestations of God's manipulation of his nerves (or "miracles") were startling to others, to say the least. Many of Schreber's delusions had to do with escaping his body-the constant babble of thousands of voices in his head were infuriating, as was his inability to cease thinking: The sound which reaches my own ear-hundreds of times every day-is so definite that it cannot be a hallucination. The genuine "cries of help" are always instantly followed by the phrase which has been learnt by rote: "If only the cursed cries of help would stop. " Memoirs of My Nervous Illness succeeds on many levels: as a memoir, as imaginative literature, and as a serious work of mythology. Flechsig makes a menacing and inscrutable villain, representing materialistic thinking and conventional reality-no help at all. Schreber, meanwhile, is the classic hero, struggling to stay sane in a cruel and capricious universe. -Therese Littleton.
Authors
- Wanda Parkinson Daines Hammond Vetterli
Review Autobiography of Wanda Parkinson Daines Hammond Vetterli / Wanda Vetterli]:
Creator: Kevin Hillstrom
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-04-16
Dewey code: 709.22
List Price: $195.00
Price: $195.00
Review Contemporary Women Artists Edition 1. / St. James Press:An essential addition to your art studies and women's studies collections Expand your women's and art studies collections with St. James Press's newest reference. In the typical easy-to-use format Contemporary Women Artists provides users with a quality reference that is quick, concise, and convenient to use. This single volume provides biographical, bibliographical and critical information on more than 350 of the world's most prominent and influential 20th-century women artists, including important new artists. A compendium of information on women in this field Profiling practitioners in more than just the traditions of painting, and sculpture. Contemporary Women Artists features women working in such media as performance art, photography, video and installation art, collage, environmental art and more. Contemporary Women Artists offers a convenient reference on women artists that are of most interest to students, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz Laurie Anderson Elizabeth Catlett Judy Chicago Camille Claudel Frida Kahlo Brarbara Kruger Dorothea Lange Maya Lin Tina Modotti Georgia O'Keeffe Faith Ringgold Other features include more than 200 black-and-white photographs of art work; general bibliography of titles covering women artists and their work; indexes to nationalities and media and guest foreword by Lucy R. Lippard, renowned art critic in the field of women artists. Entries include lists of exhibitions; personal comments by the artist, when available; and a critical essay. (20000301).
Publication date: 1989
Review Briefe grosser Naturforscher und Arzte in Handschriften: Mit Textabdruck und Portrats der Autoren / Verlag Graphische Werkstatten:
Creator: Charles S. Peterson
Publication date: 1980
Review Leora's Quest: Lakeside and Beyond. One Woman's Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Autobiography of Leora Peterson Schuck / Petersen Printers:493 page red hardcover autobiography of and Mormon family history from Arizona
Publication date: 1998
Review Imagenes de la ciencia en la Espana contemporanea / Fundacion Telefonica:
Creator: Deborah Schriver
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 974.942092
Price: $69.95
Review To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811 / University of Pennsylvania Press:To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811, a compelling primary document previously unpublished, offers insights into the life and mind of a seventeen-year-old young woman, while also providing a fascinating window into the cultural and social landscape of the early national period. Rachel Van Dyke was a thoughtful, intelligent observer, and her journal is an important account of upper- and middle-class life in the growing city of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her entries reveal her remarkably considered views on social customs, marriage, gender roles, friendship, and religion. The journal is dominated by two interrelated themes: Rachel's desire to broaden her knowledge and her friendship with her teacher, Ebenezer Grosvenor. Since Ebenezer was both her teacher and her romantic interest, it is impossible to distinguish between the themes of education and romance that dominate her writings. On several occasions, Rachel and Ebenezer exchanged their private journals with each other. During these exchanges, Ebenezer added comments in the margins of Rachel's journal, producing areas of written "conversation" between them. The marginalia add to the complexity of the journal and provide evidence of and insight into Rachel's romantic and intellectual relationship with him. The written interactions between Rachel and Ebenezer, together with discussions of friendship and courtship rituals provided throughout the journal, enrich our understanding of social life during the early national period. To Read My Heart will be of interest to students of American history, women's studies, and nineteenth-century literature; all readers will be captivated by the rich expression andemotional experience of the journal. [+]Whether she is relating the story of a young friend's wedding, the death of a small boy, or the capture of a slave in Guinea, Rachel's pages have universal appeal as she seeks to understand her own role as an emerging adult.
Creator: Paul Rapoport
Publication date: 1992-12
Dewey code: 786.2092
List Price: $160.00
Price: $150.47
Review Sorabji: A Critical Celebration / Scolar Press:Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) was an unusual legend in his own lifetime: a Paris composer and critic living in England whose compositions are of such length and difficulty that he felt compelled to ban public performances of them. This book, the first devoted to Sorabji, explores his life and character, his music, his articles and letters. It both presents the legend accurately and dispels its exaggerated aspects. The portrait which emerges is not of a crank or eccentric but of a highly original and accomplished musical thinker whom recent performances and recordings confirm as unique and important. Most of the contributors knew Sorabji personally. They have all written about or performed his music, gaining international recognition for their work. Generous quotation of Sorabji's published and unpublished music and prose assists in bringing him and his work strikingly to life. The book also contains the most complete and accurate register of his work ever published.
Publication date: 1995-06-22
Dewey code: 509.4109032
Price: $135.00
Review Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain / Boydell Press:The rise of the new, experimental science coexisted with other intellectual traditions which displayed equal vitality, including historical and philological learning, attitudes to magic and the wisdom of antiquity, and anxiety about what contemporaries called `atheism'. The studies in this book illuminate this complex state of affairs by focusing on specific figures and episodes. New light is shed on the career of John Evelyn through the use of his extensive manuscripts, hitherto hardly exploited, and the attitude to astrology of the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, is reconsidered. Other important figures examined include Christopher Wren and Elias Ashmole, occultist and founder of the first public museum in Britain. These studies underlie the new theory of intellectual change in this key period propounded in the introduction.
Authors
- Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
Review Women of the flag / Salvationist Pub. and Supplies:
Publication date: 1994-09
Review The Diaries of Robert Hooke / Book Guild Ltd:
Creator: Lynn McDonald
Publication date: 2008-12-15
Dewey code: 305.4094109034
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 11 (Collected Works of Florence Nightingale) / Wilfrid Laurier University Press:Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J. S. Mill (who used it in his On the Subject of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. Although selections from this long work have been published, Lynn McDonald is the first editor to work through the numerous surviving drafts of Nightingale’s writing and present it as a complete volume. Suggestions for Thought contains two early attempted novels, draft sermons, and a lengthy fictional dialogue featuring St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits, the American evangelical Jacob Abbott, and British agnostic Harriet Martineau (with cameo appearances by Protestant reformer John Calvin and the poet Shelley) all against an unnamed “M. S. ” The most famous section of Suggestions for Thought is the essay “Cassandra,” famous as a rant against the family for stifling women’s aspirations. Here the printed text is shown with the original novel draft alongside. McDonald’s introductions to each section provide historical context and Nightingale’s later views of the work.
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 230.082
Price: $44.00
Review Confucius, Christ and Co-Partnership: Competing Liturgies for the Soul of Korean American Women / University Press of America:
Authors
- Dixie Hines
- Harry Prescott Hanaford
Review Who's Who in Music and Drama (An Encyclopaedia of Biography of notable, men and women) / H P Hanaford:An Encyclopaedia of Biography of notable men and women in music and the drama. This particular book was a gift given to the actors of the Fidelity League from the publishers.
Publication date: 1923
Review Dr. Owens-Adair: Some of her life experiences / s.n. ;:
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 016.9104
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English / Martino:Reprint. Special Description Note- This is not a print on demand edition. Care has been taken to enhance and improve the original text whenever possible. Martino Publishing follows the standards of traditional printing and quality is a primary concern. We distinguish ourselves from Print on Demand by our quality controls, paper quality and binding quality. Quarto. English Book xxii,315 Pages. This new work is a significant addition to the list of travel bibliographies, being the most comprehensive to date dealing with women travellers. Many of the book's descriptions encapsulate both the content and the flavor of the book, and the biographical entries illuminate the life of the writer. It is a biographical bibliography of more than 1,500 books in English, written by more than 1,100 women travellers, published between 1837 and 1910. [+]The listing is alphabetical - by the surname of the writer at the time of her first publication. A geographical index of regions visited by the writers makes it easy for those with a specialist area interest to cross refer to individual entries. An index of pseudonyms used by the writers also is included. This is a book which will prove a useful tool for book sellers. At the same time, it is an invaluable reference for those in academic institutions interested in the areas of Victorian & Edwardian writers, women studies, and travel writing - bringing together, as it does, for the first time a comprehensive listing of writers and their works.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1964
Review Miss Hannah Ball,: A lady of High Wycombe / Vantage Press:
Publication date: 1997
Review Science and cultural exchange in modern history, Japan and the West / Hokusen-sha:
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Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Sophia Holland, Glimpses Into Pacific Lives: Some Outstanding Women, Memoirs of my nervous illness, Autobiography of Wanda Parkinson Daines Hammond Vetterli, Contemporary Women Artists Edition 1., Briefe grosser Naturforscher und Arzte in Handschriften: Mit Textabdruck und Portrats der Autoren, Leora's Quest: Lakeside and Beyond. One Woman's Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Autobiography of Leora Peterson Schuck, Imagenes de la ciencia en la Espana contemporanea, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811, Sorabji: A Critical Celebration, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain, Women of the flag, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 11 (Collected Works of Florence Nightingale), Confucius, Christ and Co-Partnership: Competing Liturgies for the Soul of Korean American Women, Who's Who in Music and Drama (An Encyclopaedia of Biography of notable, men and women), Dr. Owens-Adair: Some of her life experiences, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English, Miss Hannah Ball,: A lady of High Wycombe, Science and cultural exchange in modern history, Japan and the WestTop headlines: In just minutes, Mumbai was under siege: Retracing the steps of the Mumbai attackers offers clues as to how a posse of just 10 gunmen brought India's largest city to its knees in a matter of minutes. ›04:46 Eau de Penn State: Flowers, not football: Want to smell like your alma mater? 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