‘It’s about being adored, not ravaged’: Lisa Armstrong, ‘How to dress your age for spring 2015’, Harper’s Bazaar, April 2015.
Chapter 12: Own Your Authority
a book about a woman who was both an arsonist and a suffragist: Fern Riddell, Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2018.
A 2017 analysis of introductions of speakers: Julia A. Files et al, ‘Speaker introductions at Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Forms of address reveal gender bias’, Journal of Women’s Health, May 2017, vol.26, issue 5.
Part III: Walking Each Other Home
The art of friendship: ‘I am here’
‘and it’s true’: Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying, Sounds True Inc, US, 2018.
‘a book I had just given her’: Hannah Kent, Burial Rites, Pan Macmillan, May 2013.
Chapter 13: Freudenfreude: Sharing the Joy
‘Most women know, that as soon as their back is turned’: Rachael Oakes-Ash, Anything She Can Do, I Can Do Better: The Truth about Female Competition, Random House, Sydney, 2011.
‘Empathy works wonders’: Catherine Chambliss and Amy C. Hartl (eds), Empathy Rules: Depression, Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude: Research on Depression Risk Factors and Treatment, Psychology Research Progress, Nova Science Publishers, 2017, pp.xiii–xiv.
In 2016, Professor Chambliss replicated her findings: Ibid.
subjects who underwent Freudenfreude Enhancement Training: Catherine Chambliss et. al., ‘Reducing depression via Brie Interpersonal Mutuality Training (IMT): A randomized control trial’, International Journal of Health Sciences, March 2014, vol.2, no.1, p.26.
‘[You cannot] say women aren’t bitches’: Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays, Constable & Robinson, London, 2014. Also excerpted in The Guardian, as ‘Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto’, 2 August 2014.
Chapter 14: She Trashed Her Golden Locks
‘The first time a boy hurt me’: Anais Nin, Ladders to Fire, University of Michigan, Dutton & Co., New York, 1946, p.108.
This was . . . what Joan of Arc was partly burned at the stake for: It’s true also that when she began wearing male clothing again, after promising not to, this amounted to repeat offending. As the author of the novel The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc, Ali Alizadeh, explained to me, when asked by the judges why she had done this, Joan said she had been told to by ‘her Voices’ and ‘since at her abjuration she had explicitly (under much duress) denied that she had ever heard her Voices, her saying now that she was (still) hearing them amounted to an absolute recantation. It was then that this recantation, at another trial session, was found to amount to the crime of Relapse (i.e. lapsing backing into Heresy.) And the punishment for Relapse was death by fire.’
she wanted to dress like a man so she could act like a man: As suggested by Ali Alizadeh in The Last Days of Jeanne D’Arc, Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 2017.
The court notary testified that this had been the case: This comes from the deposition on 12 May 1456 given by Guillaume Manchon, who had been the chief notary at Joan of Arc’s trial; cited in Robert Wirth (ed.), ‘Primary sources and context concerning Joan of Arc’s male clothing’, Joan of Arc: Primary Sources Series, Historical Academy for Joan of Arc Studies, 2006, p.5.
When they labelled her an ‘obstinate and relapsed heretic’: Wirth (ed), ‘Primary sources, p. 8.
‘many times too, in sport, he tried to touch her breasts’: Juliet R. Barker and Juliet Barker, Conquest, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2012, p.148.
Chapter 15: Burning Bright: Candy Royalle
Candy spoke of yearning to live: Candy Royalle, ‘Birthing the Sky, Birthing the Sea’, from A Trillion Awakenings, UWA Publishing, Perth, 2018, used with permission.
Candy . . . wrote about being a ‘bold, queer Arabic woman’: Candy Royalle, ‘Here, queer and Arabic: On the road to belonging’, Overland (website), 11 May 2016.
‘We utilise things like art and activism to create a place of belonging’: Ibid.
‘And it is the essential antidote for loneliness’: Daniel Burke, ‘A rock star was asked what God’s voice sounds like. His answer is beautiful’, cnn.com, 30 June 2019.
Chapter 16: The Lassie Effect
dogs can . . . ‘even serve as an early warning system’: Deborah L. Wells, ‘Domestic dogs and human health: An overview’, British Journal of Health Psychology, 2007, 12, pp.145–156. We always think of dogs growling at gates, warning of external danger, but they also warn of internal danger. Dogs can detect oncoming seizures and can work as therapy dogs for epileptics. There is growing evidence they can be trained to detect early signs of episodes of hypoglycaemia, a common, often dangerous complication of diabetes. The Lancet reported a dog persistently sniffing a mole on its owner’s leg; when investigated, the mole was found to be malignant. Some success has been had in training dogs to detect bladder cancer in urine.
A study of 34,202 Swedes: Mwenya Mubanga et al, ‘Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death — a nationwide cohort study’, Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, article 15821.
‘cigarette smoking, diet, body mass index or socioeconomic profile’: W.P. Anderson, C.M. Reid and G.L. Jennings, ‘Pet ownership and risk factors for cardiovascular disease’, The Medical Journal of Australia, 7 September 1992, vol.157, no.5, pp.298–301.
the benefits were mainly due to an increase in exercise: James Serpell, ‘Beneficial effects of pet ownership on some aspects of human health and behaviour’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, December 1991, vol.84, no.12, pp.717–720.
A 2010 study: H Christian nee Cutt., B. Giles-Corti and M. Knuiman, ‘“I’m just a’-walking the dog”: Correlates of regular dog walking’, Family & Community Health, January–March 2010, vol.33, no.1, pp.44–52.
it was especially the case with dog owners: Erika Friedmann, ‘Pet ownership, social support, and one-year survival after acute myocardial infarction in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST)’, The American Journal of Cardiology, 15 December 1995, vol.76, no.17, pp.1213–1217.
There are many possible reasons for this: In her 2007 overview of all available evidence on domestic dogs and human health cited above, Deborah L. Wells warned that dogs were not a ‘panacea for ill-health’, and that not all studies were equally robust, but that, ‘taken together, the studies suggest that dogs can have prophylactic and therapeutic value for people . . . [and] contribute to a significant degree to our well-being and quality of lives’.
‘that paragraphs are emotional and that sentences are not’: Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, p.268; quoted in Susan Holbrook and Thomas Dilworth (eds), The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, Oxford University Press USA, New York, 2010, p.113.