Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady: Women's Writings on the Drug Experience

Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady: Women's Writings on the Drug Experience by Palmer, Cynthia & Horowitz, Michael - editors. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780688013851.

George Sand * Susan Sontag * Edith Piaf * Louisa May Alcott * Edith Wharton * Billie Holiday * Maria Sabina * Anita Hoffman * Charlotte Bronte * Diane di Prima * Sarah Bernhardt * Elizabeth Barrett Browning * Margaret Fuller * Anais Nin * Laura Huxley These women are part of a virtually unknown tradition in womens history and a rich genre of drug and altered-states literature. This book is the first collection of womens writings on their experiences with mind-altering drugs, form the Victorian to the present post-psychedelic eras. The shamans among the dozens of contributors communicate drugs revelations, visions, and healing powers, like a primitive tribes sorcerer. The mainline ladies are the pleasure and oblivion seekers, the addicts and abusers. Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady shows that, for a long time, women have experimented with drugs courageously, lived dangerously, and written about it eloquently.