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Oct 13, 2020 · For centuries, doctors readily diagnosed women with “hysteria,” an alleged mental health condition that explained away any behaviors or symptoms that made men…uncomfortable.
Mar 15, 2023 · The term hysteria, which roughly translates from Latin to “wandering uterus,” has been applied to women for thousands of years. Though hysteria has gone in and out of fashion as a way to explain...
Women under Hysteria, circa 1876-80. Causes were often attributed to phenomena, such as religious obsession, physical illness, tragic events, childbirth or marital indiscretion. In some cases, a woman daring to ask for a divorce was grounds to deem her insane and worthy of incarceration.
Sep 30, 2021 · Barbara Ehrenreich’s 1992 essay suggests that hysteria and obsession with adult men is a form of protesting sexual repressiveness, breaking free of rigid standards placed on young women in a way that wasn’t considered proper or politically correct.
For Higher History, revise how changing attitudes, suffrage campaigns and World War One contributed to women winning greater political equality.
Oct 19, 2012 · Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered an exclusively female disease. Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two perspectives: scientific and demonological.
- Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, Bianca Fadda
- 2012
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Because of the way history was thought about, women’s history was not seen as ‘real’ history. The few female histories which were recorded, were generally of royalty and the aristocracy. Working class, Black or women from marginalised communities stood even less chance of having their histories recorded than their White or wealthy ...
