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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Writing Cure"”.
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… romance within Western literary traditions. The 'writing cure' replaces the 'talking cure' in this context. By removing the patriarchal figurehead from the text, and the psychoanalytic confessional discourse surrounding it, women writers challenge misogynist constructions of femininity within …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
… my study within links among trauma, women, and writing, I argue that women and their personal stories of trauma exist in marginal, or rather, wounded positions. I problematize scholarship where links among these three commonly emerge (namely psychoanalytic, autobiographical, and feminist fields) …