This chapter introduces the concept of ‘hysteriahysteriahysterical’, tracing its history from Greek philosophy to early ChristianChristianChristianity theologians and analysing its impact on the construction of women’s bodieswomen’s bodies as ‘misbegottenmisbegotten’ to the ‘full humanity’ of the male bodymale bodymale, menmale body. This chapter will explore how these ideas of inferiority became interwoven with issues of moralitymoralitymoral, shifting the discourse of women’s bodies from ‘insufficient’ to ‘sinfulsinfulsin, sinner, sinned’.