The case for renaming women's body parts - BBC News

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BBC NewsThe case for renaming women's body partsBBC NewsBut hysteria – which was finally removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of modern diseases in 1952 – seems relatively archaic today. Less discussed is how much of the rest of the language of medicine remains draped with patriarchal terms.