Histeria: Historia De La Sexualidad Femenina / Histeria: Historia Da Sexualidade Feminina / Hysteria: Female’s Sexuality History

Introducción: Etimológicamente el término Histeria proviene de la palabra griega Hys teron que significa Útero. De esto deducimos, la feminización de la enfermedad y la vincula ción al ideal de mujer históricamente vigente. Objetivos: Dar a conocer la Histeria y el lazo que la une con la sexualidad femenina a lo largo de diferentes épocas históricas. Material y método: Revisión Bibliográfica Sistemática en Bases de datos. Resultados: Diferentes racionamientos tratan de esclarecer la etiología y sintomatología de la enfermedad. Resulta llamativo, por otro lado, el tratamiento clandestino que algunas mujeres histéricas reciben: los masajes pélvicos. Conclusiones: Análisis del legado de las mujeres que sufrieron la estigmatización de ser tachadas de histéricas desde una visión actual. Cómo vemos la Histeria hoy: significado y connotaciones (AU)

Introduction: Hysteria comes from hysteron, a Greek word that means Uterus. From there it follows the feminization of the dis ease and the link with the prototype of perfect woman at that time. Objective: Study the relationship between Hysteria and female sexuality through differ ent historical periods. Materials and Methods: Literature Review in Databases. Results: Different studies try to explain the etiology and symptomatology of Hysteria. It calls our attention that some women were treated in a clandestinely way: pelvic massages. Conclusions: Analysis of the legacy of women who suffered from the stigmatization of being branded as hysterical women at pre sent. How we see hysteria today: meaning and connotations (AU)

Introduçao: Etimológicamente o termo Histeria vem da palavra grega Hysteron que significa Ùtero. Por isto deduzimos, a femini zaçao da doença e a vinculaçao a um ideal de mulher historicamente vigente. Objectivos: Dar a conhecer a Hisetria e o laço que a associa com a sexualida de feminina durante diferentes épocas históricas. Material e método: Revisao bibliográfica sistemática em bases de dados. Resultados: Diferentes rocionomentos tra tam de esclarecer a etiología, sintomatología da doença. Resultado chamativo, por otro lado, o tratamento clandestino que algunas mulheres histéricas recebem: o massagem pelvico. Análise do legado das mulheres que sofrem estigamtiazaçao de serem acusadas de histéricas desde una visao actual. Como vemos a histeria hoje: significado e conotaçoes (AU)

Between passion and repression: medical views of demon dreams, demonic fetuses, and female sexual madness in late imperial China.

This article argues that early Chinese physicians had already related female ailments to their sexual frustration. Moreover, many physicians paid more attention to non-reproductive women ­ nuns, widows, and unmarried women ­ as if they were more prone to suffer from unfulfilled desires and sexual frustration and, as a result, produce the sexual dreams and monstrous births that were described in the medical literature of medieval China as physical ailments. The earlier body-oriented etiology of these female illnesses gradually shifted to emotion-oriented perspectives in late imperial China. In particular, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century doctors began to categorize women's sexual frustration as "yu disorders" or "love madness." In this article I will show not only the changing medical views of female sexual madness throughout the ages, but how these views were shaped by the societies in which both the doctors and patients were situated.

See Josephus: viewing first-century sexual drama with Victorian eyes.

This article looks first at how the art of J.W. Waterhouse responds to the classical world: how complex the scene of reception is, triangulated between artist, the ancient past, and his audiences, and extended over time. Second, it looks at how this scene of reception engages with a specific Victorian problematic about male sexuality and self-control. This is not just a question of Waterhouse using classics as an alibi for thinking about desire, but also of the interference of different models of desire and different knowledges of the classical world in the reception of the painting's narrative semantics.

Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Malawi.

This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new "moral hygiene" among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.

"Born again is a sexual term": demons, STDs, and God's healing sperm.

In this article I examine the intersection between sexuality and spirit-filled bodies in American Evangelicalism. I am interested in investigating two issues: the sexual body as a site of spiritual battle and the use of popular science, especially the domain of genetics, as material evidence for this spiritual warfare. Specifically, I trace the increasingly spiritualized framing of marital intercourse in evangelical literature. To follow this trajectory, I highlight the spiritualized dangers of transgressive sexuality as well as the sexualizing of spirituality in evangelical sex manuals and deliverance manuals. This article centers around one text, Holy Sex: God's Purpose and Plan for Our Sexuality, whose authors' contend that sexually transmitted diseases are, in fact, demons lodged in genetic material that can be transferred through body fluids and bloodlines. The assertions about biology and demonic affliction made throughout the book are extreme and would be rejected by most readers of mainstream evangelical sex manuals. I argue that this book, though marginal, is not an irrelevant text. It reflects deep-seated anxieties about sexual bodies, spiritual concerns, and disease. Idiosyncratic though it may seem, Holy Sex taps into wider uncertainties about the spiritual vulnerability of the physical body found in contemporary evangelical literature.

Sex and vegetables in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises.

The compilers of the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises often recommend sexual intercourse as part of treatments for women's diseases. In addition, they often prescribe the use of ingredients that are obvious phallic symbols. This paper argues that the use of sexual therapy in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises was more extended than previously considered. The Hippocratic sexual therapies involve a series of vegetable ingredients that were sexually connoted in antiquity, but have since lost their sexual connotations. In order to understand the sexual signification of products such as myrtle and barley, one must turn to other ancient texts, and most particularly to Attic comedies. These comedies serve here as a semiotic guide in decoding the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes. However, the sexual connotations attached to animal and vegetable ingredients in these two genres have deeper cultural and religious roots; both genres exploited the cultural material at their disposal.

The ancient name of rose.

The article is a survey of plants foods and drugs that Greeks and Romans thought to be aphrodisiac and to have a specific effect on the male libido. The article is a useful support to study the sexual therapy in ancient world.

[Andrology in Celsus]. / L'andrologia celsiana ed il suo contesto.

The article presents the principal topoi of Celsus' De medicina in which andrological problems are discussed. Comparing them with other testimonies of ancient medicine, the author clarifies their peculiarity and explains them in the summary of the cultural and socio-economical conditions of ancient Rome.

[Male sexuality and pathologies in the traditional medicine of Akan (Ghana): a discussion about kooko]. / Sessualità maschile e classificazioni pathologiche nella medicina tradizionale degli akan del Ghana, un'esplorazione del kooko.

The paper discusses a pathology, known in Ghana with the name of kooko. According to Akan medicine, the disease is a symptom of a social and cosmic disorder, the consequence of a divine punishment. Kooko is a red protuberance, index of a very serious disease, appearing all over the body, in the brain, ears, uterus, anus or penis. In the last case, kooko causes increasing sexual weakness.