Women: Biology, Culture and Literature - Softcover

Schwartz, Howard L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949093387 ISBN 13: 9781949093384

Publisher: Ipbooks, 2019

Synopsis

This book was prompted by my near total engagement in the Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Judge Kavanaugh's statement after the accusations against him were investigated (September--early October 2018). The timing of the hearings overlapped the 85th birthday celebrations of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who experienced bias by the legal establishment despite her outstanding scholarship and impeccable credentials, simply because she was a woman and a mother. Her persistence in the face of roadblocks led to her confirmation by an overwhelming majority of the Senate to become only the second woman Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor was the first). Their stories, and the stories of women throughout history (at least some of them), provided an outlet for my frustration and became the subject matter for this book. Following Paul Auster, "Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead."

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Review:

"Howard Schwartz, drawing upon his education in the liberal arts, medicine, and psychoanalysis, his experience as a clinician, his talents as a storyteller, and his personality as hamish, returns to themes he has explored earlier, and
focuses our attention on issues that are as contemporary as they are ancient. Embryology, mythology, the literature of Japan, Virginia Woolf, Christine Blasey Ford, autobiographical touches--and much more--are amalgamated
here in a manner that will inform but also challenge readers to probe their own set of axioms."
--CHARLES GOODSTEIN, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, former Chair, Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis at PANY, Affiliated with NYU Langone School of Medicine

"Dr. Schwartz in his usual erudite humanist and free associa0ve style writes about women heroes. To this reader he awakens the evolu0on in my perception of the sexes from men of our genera0on, who have developed the flflexibility to adapt our thinking from the era of "Father Knows Best" to the present. I now celebrate the difffference between the sexes that are equally difffferent and equally capable of achieving what they set out to do."
--ROBERT SCHWARTZ, MD, Child & Adolescent Training & Supervising Analyst at PANY.

"His 'near-total engagement' with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's and Brett Kavanaugh's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee propelled Dr. Howard Schwartz, a psychoanalyst, into an exploration of the lives of
famous--real and unreal--women, such as Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Christine Ford, the biblical Queen Esther, Lady Murasaki, author of The Tale of Genji, the goddess Athena, Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina. In this moving and memorable book, the author, aided by his analytical skills, and a finely tuned perception, uses his in-depth knowledge of modern literature (Virginia Woolf, J.D. Salinger, Lauren Groff) to present the reader with thoughtful and surprising new insights. Don't miss this challenging read!"
--UTE TELLINI, PHD, RETIRED ART HISTORY INSTRUCTOR, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1949093387
• ISBN 13: 9781949093384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120