City of Incurable Women (Unabridged)

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, t…