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Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 30 03:55:35 CDT 2001
And do note ...
"She stood up, wondering if her hair was in place, if
she looked rejected or hysterical ..." (Lot 49, Ch. 6,
p. 168)
hys·te·ria
his-'ter-E-&, -'tir-
noun
New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from
Latin hystericus, from Greek
hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion
that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by
disturbances of the uterus
1801
1 : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability
and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor,
and visceral functions
2 : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable
fear or emotional excess <political hysteria>
Classically, "hysteria" was thought the result of a
"wnadering womb" ...
http://www.yoursurgery.com/data/Procedures/hysterectomy/images/Hyster1_1.jpg
See, e.g., ...
Gilman, Sander L., et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender
from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard UP, 1990.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women,
Madness and English Culture, 1830 to 1980.
New York: Pantheon, 1985.
For starters ...
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