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"The Mourning Hour" is a true crime / paranormal podcast hosted by Texas-based best friends Allison Monroe and Katie Floyd. Each week they meet to chat crime, cryptids, and ghosts galore with a little dose of humor to cut the creepy. Two peas in one morbid pod, these best friends have set out to uncover the horrors of the world together (both real and imaginary) and report what they find... with some flair.

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Episode 38: A History of 'Hysteria': How Men Made Women Into Ghosts

July 24, 2023 • The Mourning Hour Podcast • Season 1 • Episode 38

For centuries, women have often been thought of as “the weaker sex.” Where did this belief even come from, and why has it resulted in the idea that women are somehow “less” than men?

Why were women relegated to the home, unable to participate in a “man’s world” for so long?

This week, Katie and Allison talk asylums, lobotomies, and even Valium, as they take you through a topic that’s REALLY haunting… (sigh)… the patriarchy, and explore the origins of an age-old diagnosis: “hysteria” and how it resulted in the mistreatment of women for centuries.

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