KiraJenLove asked:


Why is it more important than any other cancer of the body, like lung cancer, colon cancer, brain cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc., or any other diseases like MS, Alzheimer’s, Cerebral Palsy, etc? It’s like everywhere I go I see pink ribbons and “cure ****** cancer” marketing. It’s push to cure it is so incredibly disproportionate as to make me think there is some political motive behind it. Could it have something to do with the fact that abortion can cause ****** cancer? That would certainly provide a political motive.

Twilight asked:


Time was that women were perceived as the weaker sex, prone to swoon or bad news, be sheltered from the utterance of an obscenity and not informed of the horrors war, let alone participate in it.

Sexually active women were branded as deviant, and many such were confined by wealthier families to asylums.

I recall as recently as the 1970s reading a medical text which stated that lesbianism was a mental disorder, and went on to categorize ******** as “pipe smoking with cropped hair”, though it did clarify not all ******** did this.

The scope of this question is naturally broad, these examples are just a little inspiration for anyone who wants some.

So

How and why have perceptions of Womens Mental Health altered over the 20th Century?