These poems are based on my experiences with mental health treatment and studies of insane asylums for women in Great Britain and America during the late 19th century.

Titles are taken from the 19th century writings of Isaac Baker Brown, President of the Medical Society of London, about the use of clitoridectomy and other gynecological treatments to relieve mental illnesses in women.

Christine E. Hamm, queer & disabled English Professor, social worker and student of Ecopoetics, has a PhD in English, and lives in New Jersey. She recently won the Tenth Gate prize from Word Works for her manuscript, Gorilla. She has published six chapbooks, and several books – poetry and hybrid texts.

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