Frightening....


....that in those days women could be "put away" for being what the men deemed as Hysterical. More frightening: that a hysterectomy would cure a woman's "symptoms". Yikes. Very scary back then for any passionate women, I bet, like Suffragettes and fighters for rights. This film illustrates that pretty well...It was a Man's World, for sure.

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Not only 'back then'..as recent as the 1940s women who got themselves pregnant outside of marriage could be 'committed' to asylums and their children put up for adoption. this what happens when young women weren't told 'where babies come from'.

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Much more recent than the 1940s I'm afraid.

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO

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