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- Embed this notice@Mondobizarrro the short answer is they were a means of waging an internal war against unruly women and other insane persons when the beginnings of feminist upwelling caused social breakdown in the unquestioned order of the patriarchal family, and particularly women's roles and destinies within the larger social body. Lobotomies "cured" hysteria and madness, made good domestic functionaries out of revolting, mostly feminine, madnesses that would not cooperate- they also correspond with a intensifying degree of continual policing as a program of social management. Seeings as how simply allowing someone to die became unfashionable, lobotomy was the "progressive" fix.