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The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wall-Paper through July 8th

by Sabine Dantus on 2017-05-22T16:13:00-04:00 in Sciences | 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" through July 8, 2017

In the late 19th century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes. Artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women’s professional and creative opportunities. Wall-paper examines a nineteenth-century writer's challenge to the medical profession and the relationship between science and society. This exhibition is brought to you by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 

Lynn Library resources:
http://lynn.worldcat.org/profiles/sdantus/lists/3743859

For more Information about the exhibit:  https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/literatureofprescription/


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