Felicia Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicia Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDÓN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8908-7777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scientific objectivity and social mores: Paternity testing, illegitimacy and misogyny in Constance Pascal’s ‘La Goutte de Sang’ (1935–1936)
This article examines the French historical, scientific, social and biographical background to Constance Pascal’s filmscript ‘La Goutte de Sang’ concerning the search for a reliable paternity test. The philosophical argument is between adherence to scientific truth against entrenched social custom. Pascal’s filmscript highlights routine misogyny in the scientific workplace and the injustices to women and children of male sexual irresponsibility. …
Data Quality in State Registry Reports of Medical Cannabis Patients in the United States
Objectives. To investigate characteristics of data reported in US medical cannabis registries across states. Methods. Data included 2021 medical cannabis registry reports from 34 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia (hereafter, states) with active medical cannabis programs. The data from the reports were manually coded into domains and subcategories, including information related to patients (e.g., number, demographics), authorizing …
Constance Pascal’s Chagrins d’amour et psychoses (1935): A French psychiatrist’s views on psychoanalysis
In 1935 Constance Pascal (1877–1937), France’s first woman psychiatrist, published Chagrins d’amour et psychoses (The Sorrows of Love and Psychosis). My analysis of her monograph will consider: her major article leading up to Chagrins; Pascal’s debts to her predecessors, particularly Morel and Kretschmer; her relationship to the French psychoanalytic movement; her co-option of psychoanalysis as a tool in her own therapeutic work with patients in …
S'abréger les jours: Le suicide en France au XVIII e siècle
Publicity and Professionalism: Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) and Constance Pascal (1877–1937)
This article analyses the heretofore under-researched press coverage of the first two women to enter the psychiatric profession in France, Constance Pascal and Madeleine Pelletier. Their personal appearance and feminine, or anti-feminine, styles counted heavily in the publicity they received. Far from being passive recipients of press attention, they sought to utilise the media to further their political and professional goals. Both were committe…
Convergence and conflict: Anthropology, psychiatry and feminism in the early writings of Madeleine Pelletier (1874—1939)
This paper reviews the early career and psychiatric writings of Madeleine Pelletier (1874—1939), between 1901 and 1906. Pelletier, a committed feminist and socialist, was the first woman to remove the barriers to women entering the French psychiatric profession, successfully passing the examination for the l'internat des hôpitaux psychiatriques in 1903. Her involvement in La Société d'Anthropologie de Paris and the Institut Général de Psychologie…
French psychiatry and the new woman: The case of Dr Constance Pascal, 1877–1937
This article traces the connections between the public career and private life of Constance Pascal (1877–1937), the first woman psychiatrist in France, in the social context of the Belle Époque. Pascal, of Romanian origin, attained professional success at the cost of suppressing her personal life. Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she researched the social as well as the biological causes of mental illness. She founded one of the first…
Filles publiques or Public Women: The Actress as Citizen: Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741–90) and Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800)
Individual lives often transgress the boundaries set for them. The two eighteenth-century actresses considered here, Marie Madeleine Jodin and Mary Darby Robinson, manipulated and challenged contemporary assumptions about gender and status. Mary Robinson, after an early success on the stage (1776–1780), gained notoriety as mistress of the Prince of Wales and fame as a poet and novelist, whereas until recently Marie Madeleine Jodin has figured lar…
European feminisms, 1700-1950
This accursed child: The Early Years of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741-90) Actress, Philosophe and Feminist
The childhood and early youth of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741- 90) who later achieved some notoriety as an actress, correspondent of Denis Diderot and feminist, throws light on the lives of an artisan family in mideighteenth-century France and on the experience of one delinquent daughter. This study examines Marie Madeleine Jodin's life in relation to different categories of discrimination which she experienced; as a Protestant child, as a liberti…
This accursed child: The early years of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741-90) actress,philosopheand feminist
The childhood and early youth of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741- 90) who later achieved some notoriety as an actress, correspondent of Denis Diderot and feminist, throws light on the lives of an artisan family in mideighteenth-century France and on the experience of one delinquent daughter. This study examines Marie Madeleine Jodin's life in relation to different categories of discrimination which she experienced; as a Protestant child, as a liberti…
Les Garçonnes: Modes Et Fantasmes Des Années Folles
Flora tristan: Life Stories
Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism
Journal Article Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism Get access Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism. By Claire Goldberg Moses and Leslie Wahl Rabine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1993. ix + 371 pp. £15.99. ISBN 0 253 20818 1. Felicia Gordon Felicia Gordon Anglia Polytechnic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1 March 1995, Pa…
Reproductive Rights: The Early Twentieth Century European Debate
The Integral Feminist: Madeleine Pelletier 1874-1939
Letters
Psychiatric Monomaniacs
Psychiatric Monomaniacs
Letters
Reproductive Rights: The Early Twentieth Century European Debate
The Integral Feminist: Madeleine Pelletier 1874-1939
Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism
Journal Article Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism Get access Feminism, Socialism and French Romanticism. By Claire Goldberg Moses and Leslie Wahl Rabine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1993. ix + 371 pp. £15.99. ISBN 0 253 20818 1. Felicia Gordon Felicia Gordon Anglia Polytechnic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1 March 1995, Pa…
Flora tristan: Life Stories
Les Garçonnes: Modes Et Fantasmes Des Années Folles
This accursed child: The Early Years of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741-90) Actress, Philosophe and Feminist
The childhood and early youth of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741- 90) who later achieved some notoriety as an actress, correspondent of Denis Diderot and feminist, throws light on the lives of an artisan family in mideighteenth-century France and on the experience of one delinquent daughter. This study examines Marie Madeleine Jodin's life in relation to different categories of discrimination which she experienced; as a Protestant child, as a liberti…
This accursed child: The early years of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741-90) actress,philosopheand feminist
The childhood and early youth of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741- 90) who later achieved some notoriety as an actress, correspondent of Denis Diderot and feminist, throws light on the lives of an artisan family in mideighteenth-century France and on the experience of one delinquent daughter. This study examines Marie Madeleine Jodin's life in relation to different categories of discrimination which she experienced; as a Protestant child, as a liberti…
European feminisms, 1700-1950
Filles publiques or Public Women: The Actress as Citizen: Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741–90) and Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800)
Individual lives often transgress the boundaries set for them. The two eighteenth-century actresses considered here, Marie Madeleine Jodin and Mary Darby Robinson, manipulated and challenged contemporary assumptions about gender and status. Mary Robinson, after an early success on the stage (1776–1780), gained notoriety as mistress of the Prince of Wales and fame as a poet and novelist, whereas until recently Marie Madeleine Jodin has figured lar…
French psychiatry and the new woman: The case of Dr Constance Pascal, 1877–1937
This article traces the connections between the public career and private life of Constance Pascal (1877–1937), the first woman psychiatrist in France, in the social context of the Belle Époque. Pascal, of Romanian origin, attained professional success at the cost of suppressing her personal life. Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she researched the social as well as the biological causes of mental illness. She founded one of the first…
Convergence and conflict: Anthropology, psychiatry and feminism in the early writings of Madeleine Pelletier (1874—1939)
This paper reviews the early career and psychiatric writings of Madeleine Pelletier (1874—1939), between 1901 and 1906. Pelletier, a committed feminist and socialist, was the first woman to remove the barriers to women entering the French psychiatric profession, successfully passing the examination for the l'internat des hôpitaux psychiatriques in 1903. Her involvement in La Société d'Anthropologie de Paris and the Institut Général de Psychologie…
Publicity and Professionalism: Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) and Constance Pascal (1877–1937)
This article analyses the heretofore under-researched press coverage of the first two women to enter the psychiatric profession in France, Constance Pascal and Madeleine Pelletier. Their personal appearance and feminine, or anti-feminine, styles counted heavily in the publicity they received. Far from being passive recipients of press attention, they sought to utilise the media to further their political and professional goals. Both were committe…
S'abréger les jours: Le suicide en France au XVIII e siècle
Constance Pascal’s Chagrins d’amour et psychoses (1935): A French psychiatrist’s views on psychoanalysis
In 1935 Constance Pascal (1877–1937), France’s first woman psychiatrist, published Chagrins d’amour et psychoses (The Sorrows of Love and Psychosis). My analysis of her monograph will consider: her major article leading up to Chagrins; Pascal’s debts to her predecessors, particularly Morel and Kretschmer; her relationship to the French psychoanalytic movement; her co-option of psychoanalysis as a tool in her own therapeutic work with patients in …
Data Quality in State Registry Reports of Medical Cannabis Patients in the United States
Objectives. To investigate characteristics of data reported in US medical cannabis registries across states. Methods. Data included 2021 medical cannabis registry reports from 34 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia (hereafter, states) with active medical cannabis programs. The data from the reports were manually coded into domains and subcategories, including information related to patients (e.g., number, demographics), authorizing …
Scientific objectivity and social mores: Paternity testing, illegitimacy and misogyny in Constance Pascal’s ‘La Goutte de Sang’ (1935–1936)
This article examines the French historical, scientific, social and biographical background to Constance Pascal’s filmscript ‘La Goutte de Sang’ concerning the search for a reliable paternity test. The philosophical argument is between adherence to scientific truth against entrenched social custom. Pascal’s filmscript highlights routine misogyny in the scientific workplace and the injustices to women and children of male sexual irresponsibility. …
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