Prescribed “O’s” For Female Hysteria

Checkout Ovaries And Oddities everywhere 🎧 In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the dark history of female hysteria: the centuries-old belief that women’s emotions, desires, pain, rebellion, and mental health struggles could all be blamed on the uterus. From the ancient idea of the “wandering womb” to Victorian-era medical treatments, asylum culture, and the disturbing ways women were controlled in the name of medicine, this episode exposes how medical misogyny shaped women’s lives for generations.See you next week,Ivanna BrookesLinktr.ee/ovariesandoddities female hysteria, Victorian hysteria, female hysteria history, Victorian medicine, women’s history, medical misogyny, medical horror, dark history, history of medicine, women and mental health, asylum history, Ovaries and Oddities