Ancient gynecologists decided that hysteria was caused by a uterus moving around a woman’s body.49 How preposterous and old-fashioned. Except it is not. Katharine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, wrote in her memoir that her high school coach—a woman—told her that if women played basketball, an “excessive number of jump balls could displace the uterus.” In 2010, Gian-Franco Kasper, president of the International Ski Federation, said on television (publicly!) that a ski jump could cause a woman’s uterus to burst.50 Women were allowed a competitive ski-jumping event only in
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