Suicide: Representations of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

Suicide, like woman and truth, is both fetish and taboo. A symbolic gesture, it is doubly so for women who inscribe on their own bodies cultural reflections and projections, affirmation and negation. In the nineteenth century, women's suicide becomes a cultural obsession. As Baudelaire suggests, the captain of this century bracketed by Goethe's Werther and Durkheim's Le Suicide is death. To take one's life is to force others to read one's death. For when

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