“AS A SOCIETY, WE ENCOURAGE GIRLS AND WOMEN TO BE EMOTIONALLY ACCESSIBLE, AND IN TOUCH WITH THEIR FEELINGS; WE SAY THAT IT’S AN INNATELY FEMININE TRAIT. WE SAY IT, THAT IS, UNTIL THEY HAVE FEELINGS THAT MAKE US UNCOMFORTABLE, AT WHICH POINT WE RECAST THEM AS MELODRAMATIC HARPIES, SHRIEKING BANSHEES, AND BASKET CASES “
1. Stop Telling Girls They’re Hysterical, from The Feminist Wire
2. Hysteria and Femininity: A Tentative Investigation into a Victorian and Edwardian Myth from Early Modern England
3. Why Women Aren’t Crazy from The Good Men Project
4. Penetrating History In Hysteria from Bitch Flicks
5. Why We Need To Stop Saying “Calm Down” and “You’re Crazy” from The Current Conscience
6. Women Who Are Judged Mentally Ill Might Just Be Mad from Women’s eNews
7. This article discusses etymology of ‘hysterical’ and its widened use over time to include the meaning of ‘extremely funny’.
