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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 16:16:46 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.

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