LOBOTOMIES ON HOUSEWIVES

This is the source material for the episode of FEMINIST FRIDAYS about lobotomies on housewives in the 1940s-1950s in the United States. You can watch the episode here.

Source material:

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-many-people-actually-got-lobotomized

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962395/

https://zipit.pk/a-disturbing-history-of-lobotomies-why-most-were-performed-on-women/

https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2018/09/16/three-oklahoma-women-underwent-lobotomies-what-happened-to-them/60501326007/

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

https://www.quora.com/Did-some-husbands-in-the-1950s-really-get-their-wives-lobotomized

https://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/qdovgt/female_victims_of_lobotomy/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/an-ice-pick-to-the-brain-the-horror-of-the-frontal-lobotomy/C2X63F5EDPOOGYJKKSRYMKGZEE/

https://people.com/books/inside-rosemary-kennedys-lobotomy-performed-by-dr-walter-freeman/