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Colonizing the Female Body: From Braxton Hicks to the Hymen
Anatomical history is littered with body parts that were “claimed” and named by male explorers, effectively colonizing territory already inhabited and well-known. Leah Kaminsky makes the strong statement, “Men are all over women’s bodies—dead, white male anatomists, that is. Their names live on eponymously, immortalised like audacious explorers for conquering the geography of the female pelvis as if it were terra nullius.”