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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:18 PM Jun 2014

A little excerpt from my history book for a Tuesday evening:

About the opening of women's colleges like Vassar, Smith, and Wellsley in the latter part of the nineteenth century:

Some doctors warned that these institutions were dangerous. Intensive brain work, they said, would unsex young women and drain energy from their ovaries, leading them to bear weak babies later in life.


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