Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly Message-ID: <204@rtech.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 03:58:11 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.204 Posted: Mon Mar 4 03:58:11 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:52:57 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: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 16 > > 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 mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA Perhaps this belongs in net.nlang, but here goes: "Hysterectomy" and "hysteria" both come from the Greek root "hystera", meaning "womb" or "uterus". It is "hysteria", and not "hysterectomy", which is the word with the sexist etymology. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak