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Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for ...
The technology, art, politics, and culture of the 19th century were strongly reflected in the styles and silhouettes of the era's clothing. For women, fashion was an extravagant and extroverted display of the female silhouette with corset pinched waistlines, bustling full-skirts that flowed in and out of trend and decoratively embellished gowns ...
Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. [1] In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women.
Women in the 19th century dressed surprisingly sexily, said Muir, pointing to the translucent fabrics and exposed skin common in 1810’s fashion — and sported by prominent figures like Napoleon ...
Louise Augustine Gleizes had worked as a kitchen maid, and was sent to the Salpêtrière Hospital at age 14 on 21 October 1875. [1] [2] Before this, she had been in a nurse's care in early life, and after, she was a nurse in a religious boarding school where she suffered corporal punishment. [1]
1844 fashion plate depicting fashionable clothing for men and women, including illustrations of a glove and bonnets Illustration depicting fashions throughout the 19th century. Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the ...
These 1795–1820 fashions were quite different from the styles prevalent during most of the 18th century and the rest of the 19th century when women's clothes were generally tight against the torso from the natural waist upwards, and heavily full-skirted below (often inflated by means of hoop skirts, crinolines, panniers, bustles, etc.). Women ...
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