Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine by Laurinda S. Dixon
Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

Laurinda S. Dixon

Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

Laurinda S. Dixon

297 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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"From Publishers Weekly : Until the late 17th century, the womb was regarded as discrete and animate. Hungry for male seed, if unsatisfied it wandered the body, causing illness and bodily distress. Known as hysteria or uterine furies, the idea of ...

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