A selection from John Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare, 1781 Source: Wikimedia Commons Hysteria was the first mental disorder attributed to women, dating back more than 4,000 years. It evolved from a ...

“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and ‘Barbie’ is on a plastic doll with big boobies.” One of the most infamous lines in the unfunny ...

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 ...

Asti Hustvedt, an editor and translator in New York City, was first drawn to the subject of hysteria while working on her doctorate in French at New York University. She aimed to write a ...