Make Art, Love Dora
When public figures make headlines saying inane things about women’s bodies, it’s clear we’re too penned in by ignorance. This is why Lidia Yukanavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books) is timely and valuable. The novel is a feminist reclamation of Freud’s infamous case study. Yukanavitch’s Dora has refused diagnosis and the hysteria of her …
