Hysteria
Hysteria
A memoir of illness, strength and women's stories throughout history
By Katerina Bryant*Shortlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2021: Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover*
When Katerina Bryant
suddenly began experiencing chronic seizures, she was plunged into a foreign
world of doctors and psychiatrists, who understood her condition as little as
she did. Reacting the only way she knew how, she immersed herself in books,
reading her way through her own complicated diagnosis and finding a community
of women who shared similar experiences.
In the tradition of Siri
Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman, Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical
analysis to explore women's medical treatment. Hysteria retells the stories of
silenced women, from the 'Queen of Hysterics' Blanche Wittmann to Mary Glover's
illness termed 'hysterica passio' a panic attack caused by the movement of
the uterus - in London in 1602 and more. By centring these stories of women who
had no voice in their own diagnosis and treatment, Bryant finds her own voice:
powerful, brave and resonant.
'Hysteria is a timely and exciting work,
keenly interested in the long history of women being treated - and mistreated - by the medical system, and the ways in which their complicated legacy is still
being felt today. At once deeply personal and broadly political, it is a
touching and tender examination of what it means to live in a body and with a
brain that is aberrant or unwell, and how we might find a shape for our selves
and our experiences in these circumstances. Bryant is a careful and intelligent
writer, and this is a book that will have a great impact on many people.' - Fiona
Wright
'At once devastating, hopeful, comforting and bold. Bryant captures precisely, beautifully what it is to be made uncertain by illness.' - Anna Spargo-Ryan
'Katerina Bryant explores the disorienting and distressing phenomenon previously known - and denigrated - as 'hysteria' with compassion and insight.' - Meera Atkinson
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BOOK DETAILS
BOOK DETAILS
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781742236773
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Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Number of pages: 208
Width (mm): 135
Height (mm): 210
Depth (mm):
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