Of Wombs and Words: Migrating Misogynies in Early Modern Medical Literature in Latin and Hebrew

In the decades surrounding the end of the seventeenth century, new ideas about women's bodies migrated from Latin medical texts to Hebrew ones. This article follows the journey of one particular idea, that there exists a unique kind of feminine madness, termed furor uterinus in Latin, which ori...

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Main Author: Idelson-Shein, Iris 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2022
In: AJS review
Year: 2022, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 243-269
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
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