Ebook: Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience: Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, ... di Prima, Carrie Fisher, and Many Others

Sisters of the Extreme provides us with the eloquent writings of women who experimented with drugs. Sometimes their quests brought unexpected rewards, sometimes suffering. The selections in this anthology show that the psychedelic experiences of women have been anything but stereotypical.;Cover Iamge; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Images of Women and Drugs in Myth and History; GREECE AND CRETE; EGYPT; ASIA MINOR AND INDIA; EUROPE; NONWESTERN CULTURES; Chapter 2. Opium and the Victorian Imagination; MARY "PERDITA" ROBINSON; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING; GEORGE SAND; MARGARET FULLER; MARIA WHITE LOWELL; CHARLOTTE BRONTË; ELIZABETH SIDDAL; LOUISA MAY ALCOTT; THE HOOKAH; JANE ADDAMS; SARAH BERNHARDT; SANTA LOUISE ANDERSON; THE PIPE AND THE NEEDLE; MARY C. HUNGERFORD; CHARLOTTE RIDDELL; PATENT MEDICINES; COCA WINE AND COCAINE