The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture

by Mabel Dodge Luhan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826351190
• ISBN13: 9780826351197
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"