Links & notes: 'Unwell Women'

Thank you to everyone who contributed to Sunday's lively and robust conversation of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn.

Below find some follow-up links and details for the August 21 discussion.

Links and notes for further exploration and viewing:

• Interview with author Elinor Cleghorn (from Johns Hopkins)

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Sojourner Truth's speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio on May 29, 1851 (The Sojourner Truth Project compares the two published versions of this famous speech calling for women's suffrage.)

• A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

• The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault

• About Christine de Pisan, considered to be the first woman in France, and perhaps in Europe, to make her living through writing (from the Brooklyn Museum).

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007 Romanian film)

• 24 Weeks (2016 German film)

• The Last Duel (based on historical events; focuses on the consequences of a woman's claim of rape)

• Yentl (the film version of the story that inspired the name for "Yentl Syndrome")

• Nan and the Lower Body (play currently onstage at TheatreWorks)

• The story of the Edinburgh Seven has been turned into a musical.

• The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake (historical fiction set in 1840s London about a young woman with an aptitude for medicine at a time when women were barred from the profession)

• This Friday, July 29, PEN America is hosting a free virtual presentation of Ukrainian poetry in translation. Details.

Next Month!

In August, we will discuss A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee:

"What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances—from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city—find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more."

Discussion details:

Sunday, August 21, 2022

11:00 am to 12:15 pm Pacific Time

Topic: A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee

(The NPR review)

For details, please sign up using the link below.