by Chris LaMountain | Jul 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Of all the medical constructions of the female body, the wandering womb stands out as one of the most distant from the contemporary understanding of female anatomy. With this, it should be analyzed significantly, as it is through these historical cracks of...
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Without surgery or X-ray imaging, bodily fluids became the ancient physician’s primary insight into the body. With this, it’s understandable why the wetness of the body was used as one of the principle physes to differentiate feminine from masculine....
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Perhaps the first hoop to jump through while attempting to understand the cultural conception of the “female” body in Ancient Greece is to understand their approach to gender. According to Laqueur, in his Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to...
by Chris LaMountain | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
noun /fizis/ A Greek theological, philosophical, scientific term, usually translated into English as “nature.” Dean-Jones, in her Women’s Bodies in Classical Ancient Greece, characterizes the ancient Greek notion of “physis,” as the...
by Chris LaMountain | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
The bodies of Ancient Greek women were erupting. Discharge, menstruation, lactation, lachrymation, childbirth: their insides were violently pouring and ripping out, according to Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Soranus, the male pioneers of gynecology and obstetrics in the...
