City of Incurable Women

by Maud Casey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942658869
• ISBN13: 9781942658863
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.2"