• The term "hysteria" was attributed either to ancient Egyptians or to Hippocrates and the Greeks ( hysterika is Greek for uterus), with a belief that female ailments could be the result of a wandering uterus applying pressure internally on organs and nerves leading to symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • These conditions were often lumped together and discredited as "women's disorders," hence why hysteria was named after the Greek word for uterus, hystera . (endometriosis.net)
  • Drawing on the cultural history of the 'hysterical woman' and ancient Greek medicine and mythology surrounding the womb, Hystera reflects on the experience of living with endometriosis and the experience of receiving a diagnosis. (gradx.ie)
  • The concept of a pathological wandering womb was later viewed as the source of the term hysteria , which stems from the Greek cognate of uterus, ὑστέρα ( hystera ). (alchetron.com)
  • A little later, Plato and his ancient Greek brethren believed hysteria had to do with the uterus somehow creeping and wandering all about the body like an escaped amoeba, threatening strangulation as it entered the windpipe, as described in Plato's famed dialogue Timaeus. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Derived from the Greek word hustera , meaning "womb," hysteria was thought to be caused by "a uterus moving through a woman's body, eventually strangling her and inducing disease. (nyu.edu)
  • He coined the term as a metaphor for the Greek 'catamenia' which, in its literal medical sense, refers to the release of menstrual fluid from a body. (ny-carlsbergfondet.dk)
  • The word hysteria directly translates from the Greek 'hystera', meaning uterus, and s till today carries gendered connotations, hinting at emotionality as a predominantly female domain. (ny-carlsbergfondet.dk)
  • Ancient Egyptians also shared the early Greek belief that hysteria in women, now known as Conversion Disorder, was caused by a "wandering uterus, " and so used fumigation of the vagina to lure the organ back into proper position (Alexander 21). (interstellarindex.com)
  • Between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE, Greek physician Hippocrates denied the long-held belief that mental illness was caused by supernatural forces and instead proposed that it stemmed from natural occurrences in the human body, particularly pathology in the brain. (interstellarindex.com)
  • As a matter of fact, did you know that the word "hysteria" originated from the Greek word for "uterus? (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World begins with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • This idea stuck around through the 19th century, when many women's physical and mental health conditions were dismissed as " hysteria "-a word that comes from the Greek word for womb. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The term Hysteria is derived from Hystera and has been subsumed by it. (gradx.ie)
  • This suitor invades the body of a sister, which in turn produces an invasion into her womb. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • Hysteria was associated with the theory of the wandering womb which was introduced by Hippocrates. (gradx.ie)
  • The female semen was believed to have been stored in the womb. (alchetron.com)
  • Hysteria was first identified in ancient Greece, and although the description changed many times, it was called a woman's disease, because the uterus (womb) was thought to move around the body. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Historical treatments for hysteria included surgical removal of the womb (hysterectomy) and/or ovaries. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Hippocrates suggested the uterus was the source and many complaints that women had, giving them the catch all term hysteria. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Hippocrates was the first to diagnose hysteria in 450 BC. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Hippocrates, and later the Roman physician Galen, introduced the concept of the four essential fluids of the human body-blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile-the combinations of which produced the unique personalities of individuals (Butcher 29). (interstellarindex.com)
  • As Janice P. Nimura writes for the New York Times , Hippocrates believed that women's illnesses were all about the uterus, an organ that a later Greco-Roman writer described as "an animal within an animal" with its own wants. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • To quote King's Dispensatory - " Its action is chiefly directed upon the uterus, and is capable of exciting menorrhagia, inflammation and miscarriage. (healthy.net)
  • In time, this repeated inflammation causes scar tissue that can result in lasting damage to that woman's uterus and intestines. (endometriosis.net)
  • George Beard, a physician who catalogued seventy-five pages of possible symptoms of hysteria and yet called his list incomplete, claimed that almost any ailment could fit the diagnosis. (alchetron.com)
  • Symptoms of hysteria as an illness included fatigue, restlessness, irritability, and desire for sex. (choicestips.top)
  • Applying a vibrator to the vulva until a "hysterical paroxysm" occurs, that is, in our modern terminology, an orgasm, which was supposed to temporarily remove the symptoms of hysteria. (choicestips.top)
  • The word "hysterectomy" originated from a time when women were treated for female hysteria by removing the uterus. (breitbart.com)
  • In extreme cases, the woman may have been forced to enter an insane asylum or to have undergone surgical hysterectomy. (alchetron.com)
  • Did you know the root of the word "hysteria" means uterus (think hysterectomy)? (muscleandstrength.com)
  • Rachel Maines hypothesized that doctors from the classical era up until the early 20th century commonly treated hysteria by masturbating female patients to orgasm (termed "hysterical paroxysm"), and that the inconvenience of this may have driven the early development of and the market for the vibrator. (alchetron.com)
  • Female patients face discrimination through the denial of treatment or miss-classification of diagnosis as a result of not being taken seriously due to stereotypes and gender bias. (wikipedia.org)
  • The earliest traces of gender-biased diagnosing could be found within the disproportionate diagnosis of women with hysteria as early as 4000 years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to determine how often results of video/EEG (V-EEG) studies may change the clinical diagnosis of paroxysmal events, we prospectively studied 100 consecutive patients (75 females, 25 males) admitted for diagnosis of recurrent paroxysmal spells. (lookformedical.com)
  • Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis, reserved exclusively for women, that is no longer recognized by medical authorities as a medical disorder. (alchetron.com)
  • With so many possible symptoms, hysteria was often considered a catchall diagnosis where any unidentifiable ailment could be assigned. (alchetron.com)
  • However, he was also the first to use "hysteria" as a formal diagnosis, and in doing so, set a standard of unequal medical care on the basis of gender. (nyu.edu)
  • In other words, this diagnosis problematized female anatomy and sexuality, which remains an underlying influence in determining the way that Western doctors conduct themselves to this day. (nyu.edu)
  • Hysteria, although no longer a legitimate diagnosis, is still used to describe "overly emotional" women and has led to their unfair characterization as inherently unpredictable or untrustworthy. (nyu.edu)
  • I search for the nearest exit at the mere mention of childbirth, pap smears, surgical processes or painful symptoms of disease that involve the uterus. (dailycal.org)
  • The Martius flap procedure is a surgical procedure used to treat obstetric fistulas in women. (asu.edu)
  • During the early twentieth century, the number of women diagnosed with female hysteria sharply declined. (alchetron.com)
  • Heinrich Martius developed the procedure in twentieth century Germany to treat women with urinary incontinence caused by stress, and later doctors used it to repair obstetric fistulas. (asu.edu)
  • Okay, men impose their horrible values on women's bodies, but we're laughing too hard at the slavering sexual hypocrisy of Zinyk's repressed Victorian husband to worry about how heavy-handed the idea may be. (vancouverplays.com)
  • So what if it objectifies women's bodies. (vancouverplays.com)
  • Although Suleri's niece offers us optimism that the locks of women's bodies may perhaps open, Swift slams shut our hopes. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • This gender bias is rooted in a deeper history where women's bodies have been portrayed as consumable and disposable. (endometriosis.net)
  • These ideologies have also impacted how doctors have perceived women's bodies. (endometriosis.net)
  • As a result, studies identified pain as a regular, everyday occurrence, a "natural characteristic of women's bodies. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • Charcot opined that hysteria had some psychogenic component and was influenced by environmental conditions, with psychological and medical symptoms of disease along a continuum. (medscape.com)
  • According to the Pew Research Center , American women working full- and part-time in 2022 make 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. (marieclaire.com)
  • And here is French psychologist Jean-Michel Oughourlian's 1991 description of how female orgasm was viewed for millennia: 'What is a hysterical crisis? (besthealthmag.ca)
  • How many of us females have ever been made out to feel or look hysterical or emotional, that you're only complaining, not wanting to get better, or fabricating the pain as if it were all made up in our head? (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • For centuries, it was believed that the uterus was the cause of a woman's "hysterical symptoms. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • They would describe women as being shrewish and highly strung and shrill and, indeed, hysterical before they underwent the procedure, and then talk about them afterwards being returned to an almost childlike state of blissful ignorance. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • For instance, before the introduction of electroencephalography, epilepsy was frequently confused with hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • It has been successfully used in flatulent colic, hysteria, some nervous complaints, epilepsy, and as an excellent vermifuge. (healthy.net)
  • Because traditional gender roles usually place women at a subordinate position compared to men, the medical industry has historically been dominated by men. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, feminist practices, especially the sharing of personal experiences, have historically been and can continue to be a powerful form of female resistance. (nyu.edu)
  • Historically, from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth, clothing for men and women featured varying levels of structure. (frockflicks.com)
  • Historically, the medical establishment has often identified middle- and upper-class white women as delicate and weak. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Women are often encouraged to keep silent about their menstrual complications. (endometriosis.net)
  • 2 Over time, researchers noticed a pattern where some women with chronic menstrual pain also had cysts. (endometriosis.net)
  • 3 For hundreds of years, women with chronic pain, mental illness, and menstrual problems were misdiagnosed with hysteria. (endometriosis.net)
  • Buying and using menstrual products is inconvenient for most women, and disposing of all the pads and tampons is an increasing environmental problem for the world. (aeon.co)
  • Menstrual literature all states that a 'normal' menstrual cycle is 28 days - any shorter or longer, or otherwise irregular, is 'abnormal' even though the woman can still conceive. (aeon.co)
  • A woman with a heavy menstrual flow was advised to bind the hair from an animal's head onto a young tree. (aeon.co)
  • A woman is told that her mid-menstrual cycle pain is normal when, in fact, she has an ovarian cyst. (avivaromm.com)
  • Times of stress, aggressive exercising and disordered eating behaviors can all trigger our body to deactivate the menstrual cycle. (muscleandstrength.com)
  • Ferragu (2002) asserts that, in 1681, the French gynecologist François Mauriceau observed that irregular and continuous non menstrual bleeding could lead some women to misinterpret and ignore their own pregnancy. (bvsalud.org)
  • In what ways was it still reductive, as hysteria was speculated for millennia to be caused by women's unfulfilled sexual desires, and Emma's brain fever occurs after being left by Rodolphe? (duke.edu)
  • Although Maines's theory that hysteria was treated by masturbating female patients to orgasm is widely repeated in the literature on female anatomy and sexuality, some historians dispute Maines's claims about the prevalence of this treatment for hysteria and about its relevance to the invention of the vibrator, describing them as a distortion of the evidence or that it was only relevant to an extremely narrow group. (alchetron.com)
  • The first mechanical vibrator was invented at the end of the 19th century (perhaps the doctors who specialized in 'female disorders,' bringing several patients every day to paroxysm, were thrilled'they may well have been suffering from the first cases of carpal tunnel syndrome). (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Today, female hysteria is no longer a recognized illness, but different manifestations of hysteria are recognized in other conditions such as schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, conversion disorder, and anxiety attacks. (alchetron.com)
  • Many cases that had previously been labeled hysteria were reclassified by Sigmund Freud as anxiety neuroses. (alchetron.com)
  • Even Freud, who thought this 'hysteria' was related to repressed and childish sexual fantasies, assumed female desire was pathological unless it was expressed through intercourse. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Adolf von Strümpell (1853-1925) postulated psychic trauma as the cause for hysteria in 1884 and Paul Möbius (1853-1907) developed a psychotherapeutic concept for treating these disorders before Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed his psychoanalysis. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Endometriosis is a long-term, chronic condition, in which tissue similar to the uterine lining, 'wanders' outside the uterus. (gradx.ie)
  • Itseems to have an especial affinity for the uterus, exerting a powerful tonicand alterative influence upon this organ, and has hence been found highlybeneficial in many uterine derangements, as in amenorrhoea some forms of dysmenorrhoea , menorrhagia , chronic congestion of the uterus,enfeebled uterine nervous system, etc. (healthy.net)
  • In what way was Flaubert's specification of Emma's affiliation as "brain fever" rather than perhaps "uterus fever," when most would diagnose her with "hysteria" at the time, progressive? (duke.edu)
  • Treats" including vaginal fumigations, bitters, balms, and wool pessaries were used to bring the uterus back into place. (choicestips.top)
  • Hysteria is an old term referring to expressions of intense emotions with persistent psychosomatic symptoms. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Intense emotions, screaming, kicking and unusual body sensations were called hysterics. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • By allowing patients to consciously outburst repressed emotions, the treatment was related to childhood trauma but primarily invented to cure hysteria. (ny-carlsbergfondet.dk)
  • I felt a strange cocktail emotions relating to my body and my gender - disgust, anger, resentment, inferiority. (sistersawake.org)
  • [ 3 ] This social belief reflected the patriarchal nature of society and the different views of male and female health and illness. (medscape.com)
  • As I reflect on these stubborn generational gender biases, I think about women like my grandmother who spent years cursing Eve's sinful appetite as a chronic illness ate through their bodies. (endometriosis.net)
  • The female reproductive organs, therefore, were understood as the physiological cause of psychological illness. (nyu.edu)
  • The rise of severe mental illness is almost 70% greater in women than in men and was twice as likely to be diagnosed with a panic disorder. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • Decades later, in the 1930s and '40s, American neurologists Walter Freeman and James Watt carried out lobotomies on women based partly on the idea that deviating from ideal domesticity represented an illness in need of a cure. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • In 1860, a German pathologist named Carl von Rokitansky identified abnormal irritation and inflammation in and around cadavers' uteruses. (endometriosis.net)
  • When receiving these complaints, it was seen that doctors gave extensive checkups to men more often than women with similar complaints, supporting that female patients tend to be taken less seriously than their male counterparts with regard to receiving medical illnesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • This has caused for a misdiagnosis within females due to the large number male workers in the industry holding on to beliefs regarding gender stereotypes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The way women are treated within Western medical systems, namely their frequent misdiagnosis, can be attributed to the explicit gender bias within medicine. (nyu.edu)
  • Before considering the societal and cultural factors that have supported the frequent misdiagnosis of women, it is important to understand that there exists an explicit gender bias within clinical research and data collection. (nyu.edu)
  • Physicians thought that the stress associated with the typical female life at the time caused civilized women to be both more susceptible to nervous disorders and to develop faulty reproductive tracts. (alchetron.com)
  • More specifically, if a woman did not meet the expectations of reproductive functions (such as inconsistent menstruation cycles, inability to conceive or carry to term, as well as display negative reactions such as nausea, pain), it was assumed that she held resentment or non-desire to bear and raise children, as well as being defiant of her feminine nature and role. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately hysteria has been a term too often applied to women, often with gaslighting or a derogatory effect. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • In very recent years, it's become clear that one common thread is something called " medical gaslighting ," an increasingly used term for the well-documented phenomenon of patients-almost universally women-having their symptoms, many suggestive of very diagnosable and real medical condition, small and big - minimized or outright dismissed by medical professionals. (avivaromm.com)
  • Pierre Janet (1859-1947) first used the term dissociation to describe the behavior of people who had been diagnosed with hysteria. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • If conception does not occur, the endometrium disintegrates, leaving the body through the vagina as a period. (aeon.co)
  • Fistulas occur in pregnant women when a hole is torn between the vagina and the urinary tract (called vesicovaginal) or the vagina and the rectum (called rectovaginal). (asu.edu)
  • Even when I had the beginning of an eating disorder, that quickly became a compulsive exercise activity because trying to manage my eating disorder created a lot of anxiety, and one way I could avoid that anxiety and check the eating disorder box was to exercise, move my body. (libsyn.com)
  • The uterus was a source of anxiety and was best "satiated" during pregnancy. (choicestips.top)
  • Dr Small lamented much of the female reproductive system is named "after dead dudes" and inhibits her desire to subvert the patriachy in a modern, practical way. (breitbart.com)
  • Within a medical setting, this hysteria translated to the over exaggeration of symptoms and ailments. (wikipedia.org)
  • She found many cases of women who had complicated symptoms and were misdiagnosed, often with psychiatric conditions, only to have doctors reassess their ailments during autopsies. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Somehow, "feminism" remains a controversial word, even though the definition of feminism is impossible to argue with: an effort to make sure every woman and every individual has rights equal to that of a cis white man, no matter their race, religion, gender identification, sexual preference, or anything else. (marieclaire.com)
  • Though we've put a word to this behavior, it's no surprise that these practices have been around for thousands of years, wreaking havoc on a number of countless women and making them believe that their medical concerns were only their hysteria. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • Metaphors of locked women appear in all three novels, threading the commonly bound woman to inaccessibility. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • What is more, "women in ancient Western societies were commonly viewed as 'incomplete' males or as having inverted male sexual organs. (nyu.edu)
  • Her physician husband (Allan Zinyk) insists she have her uterus removed to cure her "hysteria. (vancouverplays.com)
  • In 1859, a physician named George Taylor claimed that a quarter of all women suffered from hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • One American physician expressed pleasure in the fact that the country was "catching up" to Europe in the prevalence of hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • It was considered a disease related to sexual deprivation in the absence of marriage'which, today, we might call sexual frustration' that could be 'treated' by massaging of female private parts , either by a midwife or a physician. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Lundy is driven by bringing awareness to the socio-political issues and ideologies that have marginalized groups throughout time and lends a voice to the women who have been deprived of their rights for centuries-all of which still holds relevance today. (turnercarrollgallery.com)
  • This is complicated and made more powerful by the deeply ingrained, harmful beliefs about women and their bodies that have existed for centuries. (nyu.edu)
  • For centuries, women who are ill or in pain have had to seek treatment from a medical profession dominated by men and informed by scientific research that often fails to incorporate female experiences. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Cleghorn argues that the dynamics created by centuries-old attitudes toward women still influence the treatment of medical conditions today. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • We have moved on exponentially over the centuries in our attitudes toward gender and our understanding of what a human body is, but because those attitudes are so ingrained, they've shaped a lot of the understanding of diseases from a clinical perspective. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Titled "Renegades," the exhibition follows two previous exhibitions titled "Can't Lock Me Up" (2019) and "Burned: Women and Fire" (2020) . (turnercarrollgallery.com)
  • In addition to its misogyny, Kristin calls body-part names nodding to "men, kings, and gods" "irrelevant. (redstate.com)
  • Even for women, we've internalized so much misogyny it's a lifetime to extract and separate from it all. (sistersawake.org)
  • In ancient Matridonal cultures women were celebrated, menarche was a gift, and the moon and menstruation cycle was a time for women to come together and support each other. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • While pretty controversial at the time, this did add to the feminist movement, allowing women to have their own control over whether or not they conceived a child and sexual freedom with a lower risk of consequences. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • The time has come to speak plainly and directly about this straightforward biological function of the human body. (aeon.co)
  • For a long time it was believed that the uterus roams all over the body, like an animal hungry for sperm. (choicestips.top)
  • Have we become so precious and hyper-conscious that something women have been doing for time immemorial is now ranked alongside war as a painful event? (disabledfeminists.com)
  • At the same time, notes the Guardian , it's described other groups as less capable of feeling pain, justifying horrific medical experiments on enslaved women and sex workers. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The second type, non-psychotic pregnancy, alludes to those cases in which women do not know they are pregnant for a great period of time or until labor. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Women's Health Equity Act, passed in 1993, gave women the chance to participate in medical studies and examine the gender differences. (wikipedia.org)
  • The newspaper reports she also wants to defeat a patriarchal history of medical definition which reinforces the fact women are not represented in most of the 700 parts of the body named after people. (breitbart.com)
  • This is straight up funny," said Wallingford, explaining that medical professionals once believed in "wandering uteruses. (omahamagazine.com)
  • Hysteria of both genders was widely discussed in the medical literature of the nineteenth century. (alchetron.com)
  • Some medical authors claim that the decline was due to laypeople gaining a greater understanding of the psychology behind conversion disorders such as hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • Too often, in the face of medical gaslighting, we start blaming our bodies and ourselves. (avivaromm.com)
  • Medical gaslighting by a previous health care provider is a major reason women come to see me in my practice. (avivaromm.com)
  • 1 This "wandering uterus" syndrome, as it is often described in medical texts, was only thought to occur if a woman was not pregnant. (nyu.edu)
  • The misogynistic ideas of male superiority and the framing of the female body as an underdeveloped male body have contributed to the exclusion of women from medical research. (nyu.edu)
  • they remain ingrained in the healthcare system and continue to impact the way women are treated in medical contexts and the diagnoses they receive. (nyu.edu)
  • Get back to me when you've been subjected to a series of non-emergency procedures on your body with neither consent nor medical justification. (disabledfeminists.com)
  • Despite women now being included in medical studies, men still come first regarding scientific research. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • [ 7 ] Dr. J.-B. Luys (1848-1897), the author of an early photographic medical atlas, [ 8 ] stands to the rear of the room, with his white mutton-chop whiskers, as his female patients perform. (cdlib.org)
  • Feminist dress-reformers blamed corsets for sapping women's strength and keeping them from achieving equality with men… [while] 19th-century medical reports that attributed diseases as varied as tuberculosis, breast cancer, scoliosis, and prolapsed uterus - not to mention hysteria, insanity, and 'impure desires' - to tight-lacing. (frockflicks.com)
  • Fashion historian Valerie Steele writes, "Historians who would never accept medical accounts of the dangers of masturbation (causes blindness and insanity) or female education (sucks the blood from the uterus to the brain with appalling results) become perversely credulous whenever fashion is the subject of medical anathema. (frockflicks.com)
  • A new survey says that 9% of postpartum women suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. (disabledfeminists.com)
  • Though we can't physically see the show of hands, I can assure you that you're not alone, and hundreds to thousands of women experience this regularly. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • Huge gender inequities nonetheless exist in sports activities attributable to widespread lack of compliance with the regulation, and white ladies and women have benefited excess of these of coloration. (healthtrackpoint.com)
  • These stories of procreation lead us to define motherhood as a consequence of the male invasion, abandoning women with both the rubble and loot of warfare -- children. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • The 3rd in a series of exhibitions treating the role women have played in art history. (turnercarrollgallery.com)
  • The history of hysteria can be traced to ancient times. (alchetron.com)
  • These pages of history, in particular, are shown in the film "Without Hysteria! (choicestips.top)
  • It is, indeed, a peculiar fact that the most sexually satisfied women through large swaths of history were religious celibates and widows. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • While causing a hugely emotional scandal, this iconic moment in the history of popular culture also served as a collective catharsis: three of the world's then-biggest pop singers, performing female same-sex attraction, wrapped in wedding aesthetics, moreover, subverting what used to be a woman's only path in life, marriage. (ny-carlsbergfondet.dk)
  • In the history of hysteria one image haunts the eye. (cdlib.org)
  • As a woman of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, with a family history of ovarian and pancreatic cancer, there was reason to believe her cancer was hereditary. (fitnessbyloren.com)
  • This theory claimed that the uterus was a living creature that would, when unsatisfied, detach itself from its rightful place and 'wander' around the female body-this was thought to be the root cause of female hysteria. (gradx.ie)
  • Judging by how popular such treatment has become, almost half of the inhabitants of British cities "sick" with hysteria. (choicestips.top)
  • giving preferential treatment to thicker thighs and lower body fat deposits. (muscleandstrength.com)
  • He confirms that the lock of insanity continues to hold fast to women and their uteri. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • In 1886, Claudel willfully demanded Rodin sign a contract she devised which included the following conditions: a promise to renounce other women, including favourite models and prospective students, to bring her along on his travels, and to marry her in 1887. (turnercarrollgallery.com)
  • If you have endometriosis, your uterus has already gone rotten. (endometriosis.net)
  • With endometriosis, the bad tissue is like a hungry worm that keeps eating up your body. (endometriosis.net)
  • And the evidence bears this out: It can take years - even up to a decade - for a woman to get diagnosed with endometriosis, an autoimmune condition, or PCOS, common conditions all affecting as many 1 in 8 women. (avivaromm.com)
  • So often, society and tradition lock up the female "empty vessel", suggesting the privacy of her genitalia remain secured until she partakes in sexual intercourse.Contrary to societal pressures which lock the doors of the female body, insinuating female genitalia are filthy and not worthy of investigation, Swift and Suleri describe young female characters choosing to follow their instinctive curiosities. (postcolonialweb.org)
  • Women with histrionic behavior often describe covert father-daughter emotional incest . (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Research that was done on diseases that affected women more were less funded than those diseases that affected men and women equally. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the least understood of any disease and one of the most common diseases among our American women. (henriettes-herb.com)
  • A widely held story is that early vibrators were used to treat hysteria, a condition that occurs only in women and is thought to be caused by a "vagrant uterus. (choicestips.top)
  • Women who complain of chronic pain that can't be immediately diagnosed are often assumed to be dealing with a mental health problem and do not receive referrals for further testing, Cleghorn points out. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Human body parts named after "men, kings and gods" have been deemed irrelevant and misogynistic by some Australian doctors who no longer seek to salute the ideas of dead, male anatomists. (breitbart.com)
  • There was an undeniable bias towards women in our collection techniques since the investigator was herself a woman and so had far greater access to female informants than male. (micsem.org)
  • 3. Women make less money than their male counterparts. (marieclaire.com)
  • These powerhouse women have pushed the boundaries of what has been considered male spaces within the contemporary art world, from surrealism to street art, used their platform to draw attention to the uncomfortable truths of sexism and racism in our country, and opened doors for the next generation of female artists. (turnercarrollgallery.com)
  • Another cause was thought to be the retention of a supposed female semen, thought to have mingled with male semen during intercourse. (alchetron.com)
  • This can result when women feel enmeshed with their fathers, often resulting in strong emotional bonds that may delay or prevent bonding with a male partner. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • It's INSANE and even harder to believe that women were kept from scientific research regardless of male-female biological differences. (goddesswellorganics.com)
  • The ancient Greeks believed that if a girl's menarche was late, blood would accumulate around her heart, and her uterus would wander around her body. (aeon.co)
  • Women have more periods now than in the past, because until the advent of contraception and bottle-feeding, women were either pregnant or breastfeeding for much of their lives. (aeon.co)
  • The case report concerns a young woman who spent nine months without knowing that she was pregnant. (bvsalud.org)
  • As these women did not know they were pregnant, they had poor or absent prenatal care. (bvsalud.org)
  • This "disease" had no distinct set of symptoms, and it was subsequently used to explain essentially any display of emotional volatility, deviancy, or "strange behavior" in women. (nyu.edu)
  • It also supports the stereotypical gender expectations for women to be mothers, or risk being punished. (nyu.edu)
  • Another reason has to do with changing perceptions and expectations about bodies, particularly those of women. (frockflicks.com)