Still from Clayton Cubitt, “Hysterical Literature: Session Seven: Amanda” (2013) (courtesy of the artist) Cubitt sees the project as an extension of his earlier work, which puts portraiture into ...

Hysterical Literature is a video series featuring women reading books aloud as, below a table and outside the view of the camera, someone brings them to orgasm with a vibrator. According to the site, ...

We’ve probably all heard it before: A woman expresses rage or grief and gets called hysterical. Another discloses sexual harassment or assault, and she also gets labeled hysterical. The tendency to ...