the body – (hysteria)

(cw: disordered eating; pejorative language re: mental health) I. Hysteria was basically the medical explanation for ‘everything that men found mysterious or unmanageable in women’, a conclusion only supported by men’s (historic and continuing) dominance over medicine, and hysteria’s continued use as a synonym for “over-emotional” or “deranged.” – Ada McVean “The History of Hysteria“Continue reading “the body – (hysteria)”