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Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
—Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
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Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
—Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
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“Invalidism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invalidism. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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invalidism
noun
in·va·lid·ism
ˈin-və-ləd-ˌiz-əm 
: a chronic condition of being an invalid
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