Female Madness In The 19th Century

In the nineteenth century, female madness was thought to be associated to female sexuality. Showalter illuminates surgical operations to “treat” female mental illness in the nineteenth century. A surgeon Isaac Baker Brown, for example, performed cliroridectomy on mad women in order to treat their mental illness. After the surge of the “treatment” hysterectomy began to be carried out on a number of women contracting mental illness. With the progress of science and medical science femininity and female sexuality were connected to female hysteria and