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City of Incurable Women
City of Incurable Women | Maud Casey
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"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 (…more)
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This brief work imagines an infamous--and real--hospital for hysterical women from the perspective of its inmates. Their fragmentary lives, the bizarre performances rewarded by exploitative doctors, the actual photographs from the hospital archives--it all blends into a strangely compelling fever dream, an urge to stake claim to individual identity in the face of an imaginary illness invented and described by men to give them power over women.

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