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[taimatsu]

I have read this article and realised at least part of why they're called hysterectomies. I'm horrified at the thought.

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[quisalan.livejournal.com]

Yup. Victorian theorists actually thought the womb moved about the body and it's movement caused emotional mood swings and 'hysteria'. It was all due to women being 'seperate but different' to men, and wondering womb syndrome was part of it.

There a lot of social/emotional issused that come out of that diagnosis that kept women out of the male domain in the 19th century.

*shrugs*