58 - What Are Mass Hysterias?
About this episode
This episode explores the concept of mass hysterias and their historical implications, particularly focusing on gender dynamics.
Can you believe at one point mass hysterias were blamed on roving uteruses?? Of course the males in power giving out diagnoses only blamed females for a long time. Eventually males were diagnosed as part of mass hysteria epidemics, but it was still a female dominated ailment according to the patriarchy of the time. A woman started the dancing plague, Nuns acting out in wildly radical ways for around a century, and the Salem witch trials are some major mass hysterical events that appear to be led by women, but there were certainly men holding positions of power that could have been better leaders of people. #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #MassHysteria #DancingPlague #SalemWitchTrials
People in this episode
Host: BringOn TheQuestions
Topics covered
- mass hysteria
- historical events
- gender roles
- patriarchy
- social phenomena
Keywords
- mass hysteria
- dancing plague
- Salem witch trials
- gender roles
- historical events
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