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020			_a9780593469101 _q(trade paperback)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1409418930
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092			_a616.89 _bS283
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100	1		_aScanlon, Suzanne, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCommitted : _bon meaning and madwomen / _cSuzanne Scanlon.
264		1	_aNew York : _bVintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, _c2024.
300			_axiii, 349 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aScanlon, Suzanne.
650		0	_aWomen _xMental health. _976840
650		0	_aInvoluntary treatment _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMentally ill _xCommitment and detention.
650		0	_aPsychiatric hospitals _xSociological aspects.
650		0	_aPsychiatric hospital patients _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aMentally ill women _xSocial conditions.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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