In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenthcentury 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 hysteriaand 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 ThroughWhere are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times? wrote Jacques Lacan. Long historys ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, fleshandblood 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 nineteenthcentury female psychiatric patients confined in Pariss Salptriegravere hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist JeanMartin Charcot and his male colleagues.

Binding: Paperback;128 pages; Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press; Classification: FV; Weight: 270 g; Dimensions: 134 x 209 x 11

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