The race of hysteria: "overcivilization" and the "savage" woman in late nineteenth-century obstetrics and gynecology

Am Q. 2000;52(2):246-73. doi: 10.1353/aq.2000.0013.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Black or African American* / ethnology
  • Black or African American* / history
  • Female
  • Gynecology* / history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Hysteria* / diagnosis
  • Hysteria* / ethnology
  • Hysteria* / history
  • Neurology* / history
  • Obstetrics* / history
  • Prejudice
  • Psychiatry* / history
  • Race Relations* / history
  • Racial Groups* / ethnology
  • Racial Groups* / history
  • Racial Groups* / psychology
  • United States / ethnology
  • Women* / history
  • Women* / psychology