Women on the verge
Subtitle: the culture of neurasthenia in nineteenth-century America
By: essays by Katherine Williams ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Wanda M. Corn.
Contributors: Williams, Katherine; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.
Publisher: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Art and mental illness -- Exhibitions; Neurasthenia in art -- Exhibitions; Women in art -- Exhibitions; Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Women -- Mental health -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Neurasthenia -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, November 11, 2004-February 6, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-81) and index.
Table of contents: title: American women and "nervousness" : neurasthenia then and now / Katherine Williams; title: Rest for the weary : American nervousness and the aesthetics of repose / Zachary Ross; title: Figuring the neurasthenic : Thomas Eakins, nervous illness, and gender in Victorian America / Kathleen Spies; title: Reforming the lady : Charles Dana Gibson and the "new girl" / Amanda Glesmann; title: American women, neurasthenia, and the art of doing nothing / Claire Perry.