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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 00:08:01 EST
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>>>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.
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Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr