A Mad Woman Guide to Madwomen

Studies on contemporary hysteria

I’m working to finish up a big project this week, so I’m a little dizzy at the moment, surfing the kind of hysteria I write about below— the kind that comes, for me, when I’m immersed in a writing project. But this project in particular also has me thinking a lot about how women’s sexual responses and desires have been pathologized throughout the ages, …