For her own good : two centuries of the experts' advice to women / Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
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Details
- Edition
- Second Anchor Books edition.
- Description
- xx, 410 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-388) and index.
- Contents
- In the ruins of patriarchy -- Witches, healers, and gentleman doctors -- Science and the ascent of the experts -- The sexual politics of sickness -- Microbes and the manufacture of housework -- The century of the child -- Motherhood as pathology -- From masochistic motherhood to the sexual marketplace.
- Subject
- Women -- history -- United States.
- Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States.
- History, 19th Century -- United States.
- History, 20th Century -- United States.
- Maternal Health Services -- history -- United States.
- Women's Health Services -- history -- United States.
- Women's Rights -- history -- United States.
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
- Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- History.
- Women's health services -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History.
- Women's rights -- United States -- History.
- Added Author
- English, Deirdre.
- ISBN
- 1400078008
- ISSN
- 1400078008