Hysteria, the Wandering Uterus, and Vaginal Massage

Originally posted in 2010. Re-posted in honor of Women’s History Month. When I teach gender I always talk about the ways in which societies actively construct ideas that men and women have very different bodies, capable of different things. In the U.S., our gender ideology includes the belief that female bodies are weaker than male … Continue reading Hysteria, the Wandering Uterus, and Vaginal Massage