Title: Voices from the Asylum
Subtitle: Four French Writers, 1850-1920
Description: This book investigates complex linking between gender, and medical diagnosis in the late nineteenth century and beginning of twentieth in the milleu of French medical establishment. Special attention is paid to investigation of written utterances of patients. The book investigates lives and writing of four women: sculptor Camille Claudel, musician Hersilie Rouy, the feminist Marie Esquiron, and 'self-proclaimed mystic' Pauline Lair Lamotte.
Subjects: Belle Epoque, hysteria, asylums, psychiatry, literature and madness, feminism, feminist art, social history, literary analysis
Places: France, Salpetriere, Bicetre, Bichat
People: Camille Claudel, Rodin, Luce Irigaray (1930-), Dora, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Time periods: late nineteenth, early twentieth century