Installation view, The Wandering Womb, 2025. Photo by Mario Gallucci. COURTESY OF LUMBER ROOM. Credit: COURTESY OF LUMBER ROOM. The myth of feminine hysteria didn’t start in a Victorian sanatorium.
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The dark history of 'hysteria'
Before "that time of the month" became a catch-all excuse for a woman's mood swings, there was another, stranger uterus-adjacent reason for female distress: hysteria. This wasn't just a misogynistic ...
“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and ‘Barbie’ is on a plastic doll with big boobies.” One of the most infamous lines in the unfunny ...
The ancient wandering womb theory suggested that many ailments in women were caused by the uterus becoming dislodged and roaming the body in search of moisture. The pelvic floor supports our organs in ...
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