Before modern medicine, unexplained women’s behaviors and illnesses were diagnosed as hysteria. 1 Symptoms of hysteria included, but weren’t limited to, fever and physical pain, as well as behaviors ...

Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero) Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female ...

Mention vibrators and most people immediately think of women’s sexual pleasure. And no wonder: An estimated one-third of adult American women now own at least one. Clitoral stimulation with vibrators ...

In her wide-ranging début memoir, “A Matter of Appearance,” Emily Wells recounts an early memory of watching a videotaped performance in a ballet recital. She danced well: her movements were quick and ...