Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly Message-ID: <2030@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:11:58 EST Article-I.D.: sun.2030 Posted: Wed Mar 6 03:11:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:11:29 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: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 > > >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 Go play in net.jokes, Ed -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)