City of Incurable Women

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored"City of...
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Author: Maud Casey
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City of Incurable Women by Casey, Maud

City of Incurable Women

CHF 22.62

City of Incurable Women

CHF 22.62
Author: Maud Casey
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored

"City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty." --Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through

"Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris's Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.



Author: Maud Casey
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781942658863


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 02/25/2022

About the Author

Maud Casey is the author of five books of fiction, including City of Incurable Women (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2022), and a work of nonfiction, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the St. Francis College Literary Prize, she teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Washington, DC.


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