EAN: 9780593469101

COMMITTED - SUZANNE SCANLON KARTONIERT (TB)

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 at
twenty years old that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly four
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. She began to see herself as part of a long tradition of women whose
stories are reduced to crazy chick narratives  rather than stories of women who forged
complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization: Virginia Woolf  Charlotte Perkins
Gilman  Frances Farmer  Jean Seberg  Sylvia Plath  Shulamith Firestone. 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 shapes and ultimately saves her.
Committed is Suzanne's story about discovery and recovery  reclaiming the idea of the madwoman
as one template for insight and transcendence. Committed ducks and weaves through the works of
these seminal madwomen via Suzanne's own story of resilience and being. She paints vivid
portraits of friends and lovers  life on the ward and after  and the women who saved her life
by encouraging her to live it--

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