{"product_id":"committed-on-meaning-and-madwomen-paperback","title":"Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSuzanne Scanlon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Transporting, honest, and graceful, \u003ci\u003eCommitted\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUZANNE SCANLON is the author of the novels\u003ci\u003e Promising Young Women \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHer 37th Year, An Index\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.95 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748824154400,"sku":"9780593469101","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/70113a5916ed036ae2f0e8042cf6cc16.webp?v=1779917240","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/committed-on-meaning-and-madwomen-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}