Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly Message-ID: <634@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 00:08:01 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.634 Posted: Wed Mar 6 00:08:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 03:49:41 EST References: <249@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <3299@umcp-cs.UUCP> <5077@utzoo.UUCP> <2389@nsc.UUCP> <700@ccice5.UUCP> <2408@nsc.UUCP> <296@mtxinu.UUCP> Organization: Huxley College Lines: 19 >>>Female mutilations; is this like foot-binding or is there more? >> >>Clitorectomies, histerectomies, removal of healthy kidneys and other organs. >>In nineteenth century America, surgery was the cure for dissatisfaction >>with women's lot. > Hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus, as I'm sure most all of us > know. However, the word means "removal of hysteria,"(!) which shows > how the practice originated. [ED GOULD] Actually, the word "hysteria" comes from the Latin, which comes from the Greek "hUsterikos", which means womb. Womb-ectomy seems a proper formation. It's interesting though that the word "hysteria" actually comes from the root "hyster-" (from hystericus and husterikos, "hustera" = womb), since it was believed that hysteria (an obviously female disease - ?) was caused by uterine disturbances. -- Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr