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Author Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962.

Title The suppressed memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan : sex, syphilis, and psychoanalysis in the making of modern American culture / edited by Lois Palken Rudnick
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The Sins of the Fathers"; 1: Family Secrets; 2: Green Horses; 3: Family Affairs; 4: The Statue of Liberty: A Story of Taboos; 5: The Doomed: A Tragic Legend of Hearsay and Observation; Epilogue: Doctors: Fifty Years of Experience; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary "Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her four-volume published memoir. Making the suppressed portions of Luhan's memoirs available for the first time, well-known biographer and cultural critic Lois Rudnick examines Luhan's life through the lenses of venereal disease, psychoanalysis, and sexology. She shows us a mover and shaker of the modern world whose struggles with identity, sexuality, and manic depression speak to the lives of many women of her era. Restricted at the behest of her family until the year 2000, Rudnick's edition of these remarkable documents represents the culmination of more than thirty-five years of study of Luhan's life, writings, lovers, friends, and Luhan's social and cultural milieus in Italy, New York, and New Mexico. They open up new pathways to understanding late Victorian and early modern American and European cultures in the person of a complex woman who led a life filled with immense passion and pain."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 -- Diaries
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 -- Sexual behavior
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 -- Health
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 -- Mental health
SUBJECT Luhan, Mable Dodge, 1879-1962
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 fast
Dodge Luhan, Mabel 1879-1962 gnd
Subject Women intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
Syphilis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Subculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Women.
Syphilis.
Patients.
Women
Syphilis
Patients
History, 20th Century
patients.
women (female humans)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Health
Intellectual life
Mental health
Sex
Subculture
Syphilis -- Patients
Women intellectuals
Sexualverhalten
Syphilis
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources
Subject United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Diaries
History
Sources
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Rudnick, Lois Palken, 1944-2021
LC no. 2012008605
ISBN 9780826351210
0826351212
6613949582
9786613949585
128363712X
9781283637121