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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (83 pages) |
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| Summary |
""Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, they have been revived at last by Maud Casey in City of Incurable Women as complex, flesh-and-blood people, dispossessed and marginalized due to their gender and class but with their own stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and re-imagined, poignantly restore the humanity to the 19th century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris's Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male students"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- The City Itself -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea -- In the Before -- The Dull Stage of Reality -- Time's Signature -- The Inclination to Believe -- Her Godly Imagination -- Father, Ether, Sea -- Never the Same Way Twice -- The Bells of Loudun -- Whipping Nettles -- A Heartless Child -- Bodies, We Are in Them -- Notes and Credits -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Salpêtrière (Hospital)
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Salpêtrière (Hospital) (OCoLC)fst00521328
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Women patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatric hospital patients. (OCoLC)fst01081030
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Women patients. (OCoLC)fst01178264
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Casey, Maud City of Incurable Women La Vergne : Bellevue Literary Press,c2022 9781942658863 |
| ISBN |
9781942658900 (electronic book) |
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