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City of incurable women / Maud Casey.
""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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781942658863 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Salpêtrière (Hospital) > Fiction. Hysteria > France > History > 19th century > Fiction. Women patients > France > History > 19th century > Fiction. Psychiatric hospital patients > France > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 4 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fernie Heritage Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC CAS (Text) | 35136000613902 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF CAS (Text) | 35198000742065 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-08-21 |
| Grand Forks | FIC CAS (Text) | 35142002741378 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F CAS (Text) | 35137001053544 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | CAS (Text) | 33923006441988 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
