Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture by Cristina Mazzoni, Christina Mazzoni

Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture

Cristina Mazzoni, Christina Mazzoni

233 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Saint Hysteria examines scientific, literary, and religious texts that share a fascination with the otherness of the female body, whether in ecstatic pleasure or in neurotic pain. Cristina Mazzoni focuses on material from the late nineteenth and e...

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