Gallery Talk- Hysteria: Women's Health in the 1800s

Andrea Hutslar, Outreach Curator, will present a Gallery Talk on "Hysteria: Women's Health in the 1800s", on Friday, September 5th at 11 am at Ruthmere. 

Hysteria: a Latin term that literally means, "of the womb."

For thousands of years, women's bodies and minds were set aside by male physicians as unsolvable mysteries, their ailments blamed on the perplexing womb. Hysteria - a blanket term that once covered nearly every affliction known to woman - was a culmination of attempts to understand women's health. Andrea will discuss how women's physical and mental health was perceived, researched, and cared for in the 19th century through the lens of hysteria.

Gallery Talks feature a twenty-minute discussion on an object/artwork within the Ruthmere collection or a person or event in local history. Our Gallery Talks are free and open to the public. 

This talk is sponsored by Ann Wroblewski. Thank you!