Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, Including Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Carrie Fisher, and Others
Manufacturer: Park Street Press Keywords: Popular Drugs ISBN: 0892817577
Book description An anthology of writings by some of the most influential women in history on the often misunderstood and misrepresented female drug experience. • With great honesty, bravery, and frankness, women from diverse backgrounds write about their drug experiences.Women have been experimenting with drugs since prehistoric times, and yet published accounts of their views on the drug experience have been relegated to either antiseptic sociological studies or sensationalized stories splashed across the tabloids. The media has given us an enduring, but inaccurate, stereotype of a female drug user: passive, addicted, exploited, degraded, promiscuous. But the selections in this anthology-penned…
Book review: SISTERS Give The Wildest Ride Being on the fringe of consensual reality and yet being able to take some notes of the journeys beyond, is an awesome gift. The stories in SISTERS OF THE EXTREME are such gifts of the God-Us. I have… Sisters Of The Extreme is an informative and engaging presentation of famous female authors who write about the drug experience includes a variety of works from such notables as Bronte, Alcott, Di… Books about drug abuse: The 2007 Import and Export Market for Antibiotics Excluding Medicaments in Spain, EMT-B National Standards Self-Test (3rd Edition) (EMT National Standard Self-Test Review), The effect of levodopa, thymoquinone and/or acetylcholine on SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells using conventional and sustained drug delivery: (Dissertation), Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine (Studies in Social Medicine) |
