Women have long been seen as at the mercy of their biology. In the ancient medical world it was believed that a ‘wandering womb’ caused suffocation and death. Menstruation and pregnancy were thought to make women the weaker sex, both physically and mentally. By the late nineteenth century, it was deemed scientifically proven that women’s biology made them less rational than men, unfit to …

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