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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsFor Her Own Good 150 Years of the Expertby Barbara Ehrenreich
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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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