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- 9781400078004
- Book Title
- For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Health & Fitness, Medical, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Women, Ethics, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Health, Civil Rights, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400078008
ISBN-13
9781400078004
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30529283
Product Key Features
Book Title
For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Women, Ethics, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Health, Civil Rights, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1426.E38 2005
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Reviews
"A splendidly bold and readable review of medical, psychological and social theory since the industrial revolution."-- The Guardian (London) "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, author of Seizing Our Bodies, The Politics of Women's Health Care " 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 form 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 " For Her Own Good . . . uses rationality informed by moral insight to meet the 'experts' head-on."-- The Boston Globe, "A splendidly bold and readable review of medical, psychological and social theory since the industrial revolution."-- The Guardian (London) "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, author of Seizing Our Bodies, The Politics of Women's Health Care " 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 form 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 " For Her Own Good . . . uses rationality informed by moral insight to meet the 'experts' head-on."-- The Boston Globe
Table of Content
Foreword (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
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
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2005-272032
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