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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Womenby Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Synopses & ReviewsReview:"For Her Own Good is a landmark work: It changes everything one believed before about doctors, scientists, and all other kinds of patriarchal experts. the most important work on women since The Feminine Mystique" Claudia Dreifus Review:"For Her Own Good gives us a perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of childhood, unlike any we have had. I have read it with mounting intellectual excitement, underlining, marking pages, arguing from start to finish with its authors in my head. It is humanly and theoretically fascinating, written with clarity, wit, and verve and with a deep concern for the future." Adrienne Rich Synopsis:A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other. Table of ContentsForeword (2004) ONE In the Ruins of Patriarchy The Woman Question • The New Masculinism • Feminist and Domestic Solutions • Science and the Triumph of Domesticity THE RISE OF THE EXPERTS TWO Witches, Healers, and Gentleman Doctors The Witch Hunts • The Conflict over Healing Comes to America • Healing as a Commodity • The Popular Health Movement • Lady Doctors Join the Competition THREE Science and the Ascent of the Experts The Moral Salvation of Medicine • The Laboratory Mystique • Medicine and the Big Money • Exorcising the Midwives THE REIGN OF THE EXPERTS FOUR The Sexual Politics of Sickness A Mysterious Epidemic • Marriage: The Sexual-Economic Relation • Femininity as a Disease • Men Evolve, Women Devolve • The Dictatorship of the Ovaries • The Uterus vs. the Brain • The Rest Cure • Subverting the Sick Role: Hysteria FIVE Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework The Domestic Void • The Romance of the Home • Domestic Scientists Put the House in Order • The Crusade Against Germs • The Manufacture of New Tasks • Feminism Embraces Domestic Science • “Right Living” in the Slums • Domesticity Without the Science SIX The Century of the Child Discovery of the Child • The “Child Question” and the Woman Question • The Mothers’ Movement • The Experts Move In SEVEN Motherhood as Pathology The Expert Allies with the Child • The Doctors Demand Permissiveness • Libidinal Motherhood • Bad Mothers • “Momism” and the Crisis in American Masculinity • The Obligatory Oedipus Complex • Communism and the Crisis of Overpermissiveness THE FALL OF THE EXPERTS EIGHT From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual Marketplace Mid-century Masochism • Gynecology as Psychotherapy • Revolt of the Masochistic Mom • The Rise of the Single Girl • Spread of the Singles Culture • Popular Psychology and the Single Lifestyle Afterword: The End of the Romance (2004) Notes Index Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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