For Her Own Good Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women 1st edition by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN 1400078008 9781400078004

For Her Own Good Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women 1st edition by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN 1400078008 9781400078004

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ISBN 10: 1400078008
ISBN 13: 9781400078004
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Since the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for women, spawned legions of “scientific” experts.
 
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English has never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women 1st Table of contents:

ONE In the Ruins of Patrlarchy
TWO Witches Healers and Gentioman Doctors
The Witch Hunts The Contlict over Healing Comes to Americn
THREE Science and the Ascont of the Exports
FOUR The Sexual Politics of Sickness
FIVE Microbes and the Manufacture of Housawork
The Domestic Void The Romance of the Home Domestic
SEVEN Mothorhood as Pathology

The Expert Allies with the Child The Doctors Domand
Obligatory Oodipus Complex Communism and the Orisis
EIGHT From Masochistic Motharhood
Midcantury Masochism Gynecology as Psychothorapy
The End of the Romance 2004
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