Minutus

What's to reconcile? The Queen was charged with building and maintaining an
empire. I think what feminism has done very well is elucidate exactly what
role these "victorian" practices which subjugated women played in this aim.
After all, you can't have world domination without forcing a lot of people
to work for free, or provide their offspring "for the cause", or suppress
their own desires for their own lives for the purposes of creating a stable,
wealthy, self-perpetuating "society", right?

Awareness about those realities is not granted by according to sex or
gender--the Queen was raised to rule, just as any King was raised to do.
That she would think twice about how that would affect poor people and women
is something that's hard to believe...certainly no man would have done it in
her position, so why would it be expected of her, charged with the same
task? After all, she'd never have been allowed near the throne if she
didn't understand and embrace and think along those very lines. She'd have
been considered a grave threat to the country. In a man's world, only the
women who can think like the men are supposed to think get to play...and
Victorian England was quite definitely a man's world.

it is not just poor women. in the usa, i discovered a couple of years ago, that women were
opting for hysterectomies because their insurances paid for it. a friend of mine in maryland was
quite happy to tell me she took advantage of this option and that all the women in her very
middle-class housing development were doing this. it was the latest status rage. she was
dealing with her anxiety about uterine cancer that might develop at some time in her life.
so this is another layer of the situation. "see how much one can get without paying for it!"
and a keeping-up-with-the-joneses mentality. a number of years ago i listened to an herbalist
talk on menopause. she spoke about the medical mentality at that time which was to get
every woman on HRT. this was the then current 'wisdom' being taught in the medical schools.
great marketing efforts were accompanying this teaching. voluntary hysterectomies seem to
be the next layer of milking the female population for the great medical pocket.

as long as people remain in a co-dependent relationship with the medical profession, this
on-going procession of faddist type procedures will continue. we have had some medical historians
of various political persuasions. what we need is political medical advocates who promote
the political understanding of the health institutions, connecting the behavior of the medical
institutions to the larger political/economic reality of our cultures. our situation regarding the
medical abuse of women is mirrored throughout our culture(s). awareness and education is the
key to creating change--as always.

tanya

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Anton,

There is a book on hysterectomies called "Misinformed Consent." Don't know the author's name, and I haven't read the book yet myself, but it was recommended by a patient of mine who underwent an emergency hysterectomy that she now regrets.

I'd be interested in knowing the experience of other homeopaths in dealing with the "instant menopause" brought on by hysterectomies.

Peace,
Cinnabar

Dear Cinnabar

Thanks so much for the reply. I will really try to get hold of this
publication. It seems to bring me closer to what I have in mind. Thanks also
for all the other view points on the matter.

Blessings.

Anton.