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City of Incurable Women
By Maud Casey
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By Maud Casey
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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
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