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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:11:58 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		    mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
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Go play in net.jokes, Ed
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