![]() ![]() ![]() Gynaecology and obstetrics, because of their intimate character, the use of instruments such as the speculum or forceps, as well as certain operations such as ovariotomy, have also been targeted by some attacks. Many of the studies that have focused on the issue of hysteria and its psychiatric treatment have however tended to be conducted, in the words of Aude Fauvel, “in an accusatory tone”, stressing the use of the latter to repressive ends. ![]() Since the 1970s, much has been written about the treatment of women by an essentially male medicine, whether in the context of Women’s history or History of Health and Medicine. This one-day conference is organised in the context of a UGA project on "Gender, Mental Health and Gynaecology in the 19th Century" and in the wake of research that has been carried out in the past few years in two of our research centre on the issue of medical, political and militant discourses related to women's bodies. ![]()
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