Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!vlsvax1!qantel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly Message-ID: <296@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 16:16:46 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.296 Posted: Sun Mar 3 16:16:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:45:56 EST References: <249@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <3299@umcp-cs.UUCP> <5077@utzoo.UUCP> <2389@nsc.UUCP> <700@ccice5.UUCP> <2408@nsc.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 13 > >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 mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146