<p>A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.</p>

For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Barbara Ehrenreich

Deirdre English

Women's Studies

Anchor

For Her Own Good

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

For Her Own Good: One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Writers and Readers

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics)

The Feminist Press at CUNY

   In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture-in education, in jobs, and in public life. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. By the late 19th century, when the authority of religious documents had waned, the ultimate rationale for sex discrimination became solely biomedical. In this intriguing pamphlet, the authors raise the diffuclt question: "How sick-or well-are women today?" They assert that feminists today want more than "more": "We want a new style, and we want a new substance of medical practice as it relates to women."

Complaints & Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Contemporary Classics Book 2)

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