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A NEW BANNER EXHIBITION!
The National Library of Medicine is accepting requests to host a new banner exhibition scheduled to be available October 4 2009.
The title is Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
In the late nineteenth century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes. Artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women's professional and creative opportunities.
As with our other banner exhibitions, we are asking host libraries to cover incoming FedX expenses, which usually run a few hundred dollars. The booking period is six weeks. The online exhibition will feature K-12 lesson plans and a higher education module and will be available after Labor Day.
An additional note, historian Helen Horowitz advised on the project and developed the higher education module, and is currently writing a book about the topic. She’ll be speaking about her research on Gilman at the History of Medicine Division Seminar this September 9 for those who are interested. http://www.smith.edu/history/fac_hhorowitz.htm
Thank you.
Patricia Tuohy
Head, Exhibition Program
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Building 38/Room 1E-21
Bethesda MD 20894
t: 301.435.5240
f: 301.402.0872
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