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Featured Book for Lectures: All in My Head |
All in My Head is a black comedy, a candid memoir and an informed journalistic report. It's about my often absurd struggles to try to cure (but ultimately manage) one long 15-year migraine (now diagnosed as "chronic daily headache"), through odysseys through the extremes of both Western and alternative medicine.
Meanwhile, the book stops to address different "big picture" issues involved, such as framing chronic pain as a "women's issue." This book is the first one written on "chronic daily headache," a constant or near-constant headache, that affects about 4-5 percent of the population (and about 10 percent of women of childbearing age).
SALON.COM (4-05): "Her book connects the dots on this issue of women and chronic pain in a way nobody else has done." THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (5-06) describes the book as "exhaustively researched, comprehensive in its cultural analysis, effectively organized, engagingly written, and, well, a riot." Read more reviews and blurbs hereOrder the book here
Created on 02/03/2005 02:04 PM by carolsim
Updated on 02/05/2009 02:09 AM by paulakamen
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Announcements |
Jane play adapted for January 2010 production in Canada |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 11/07/2009 02:56 AM
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| This is the premiere of a new hour-long monologues-only version, featuring verbatim interviews of women who both used and ran the famous pre-Roe underground abortion service in Chicago. The Saint Mary's University Women's Centre production in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be the international premiere of the play, on January 9, 10 and 27, 2010. |
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AUTHOR APPEARANCES AT BOOK GROUPS/DISCUSSION GUIDE |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 11/03/2008 08:19 PM
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I'm available to be a guest at book groups discussing the new paperback of
Finding Iris Chang, which covers issues of friendship, women's ambition, Asian studies and mental illness. That's either in person in the Chicago area or via phone elsewhere.
For discussion guide, click text here
For To see a report by Clare Helene describing a group I attended late last year, Click Text Here (Dec. 17 entry).
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Jody Howard, Jane co-founder, RIP |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 02/15/2010 10:54 PM
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We have now lost one of the co-founders of Jane, which was the legendary underground Chicago abortion service. The "hippie housewives" and college students who ran it performed more than 11,000 safe abortions from 1969 to 1973. It was known as the "best kept secret in Chicago," which everyone, even cops who directed their daughters to the service, seemingly knew about.
I interviewed Jody in 1992 when she was living on the South Side for research on a play on Jane, which uses many of her words verbatim. Several years ago, her also-brave co-founder, Ruth Surgal, who lived in Hyde Park, also passed away. Despite the stated collectivist philosophies of the group, in order to practically get things done, both of them basically ran Jane for most of its tenure.
Another Jane member, Judith Arcana, told me such a service would not exist today because fear of the anti-abortion activists; back then, the worst they feared was jail, now they'd more fear for their lives.
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"Sick Humor" AWP panel in Denver |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 02/15/2010 02:49 PM
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At Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Denver. From the program:
Sick Humor: What's Not Funny about Serious Disease? (S. L. Wisenberg, Paula Kamen, William Bradley, Regina Barreca, Marya Hornbacher) In sum, the panelists, all nonfiction writers, have had a fifteen-year headache, a thyroid condition, fibroids, bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, various cancers, and a rare blood disease—so of course all they can do is laugh. They will discuss theories of humor, the effect of using humor to write about serious illness, and their own writing.
For more info, see AWP conference website or Sandi Wisenberg's Cancerbitch blog
Event occurs on 04/08/2010 from 10:30 AM to .
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Keynote address at DBSA conference |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 02/15/2010 02:37 PM
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Will discuss Iris Chang's brilliant work, along with her tragic struggle with likely bipolar disorder. At DBSA national conference in Itasca, IL (west of Chicago). For more info, see website of Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Event occurs on 05/02/2010 from 09:00 AM to .
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