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Western medicine has always had a ready explanation for women who were too emotional, too angry, too withdrawn, too sexual, or simply unwilling to comply. For centuries, “feminine” has been shorthand for chaotic. Descartes’ emphasis on clear, distinct reasoning and his separation of the mind from the body helped establish modern ideals of... See more
Girls who love systems
Throughout history, massaging "hysterical" female patients to orgasm was the most commonly known "treatment," a topic discussed at length in Rachel P. Maines' book The Technology of Orgasm. If hysteria was seen as the result of sexual deprivation, doctors relieved these "symptoms" through various modes of inducing orgasms, either through vibrators... See more
A History of Hysteria in Art, Film, and Literature
IV. Medicine, Spectacle, and the Gynecological Theatre
These ground your historical and ethical critique.
Medical Bondage
Foundational history of American gynecology and racialized violence.Medical Apartheid
Long view of medical experimentation and extraction.Public Privates
Gynecology as performance; theatre as epistemology.The Birth of the Clinic
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