Joyce Carol Oates novel "Butcher" is a reflection on women's agency over their bodies

The new novel “Butcher” by Joyce Carol Oates is a reflection on women's agency over their bodies

The new novel “Butcher” by Joyce Carol Oates is a reflection on women's agency over their bodies. It tells the story of Silas Aloysius Weir during his years as director of New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics in the mid- to late 1880s.