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Title: For Her Own Good : 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0-385-12651-4 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it!
Comment: This book offers insight into our everyday lives - turned and twisted, yet redily accepted without questions. Very detailed and informative, the authors provide us with an objective historic prospective coupled with a passionate rhetoric of disbelief. Read it! Learn from it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't put it down
Comment: I am fascinated by "For her own good". I had heard of some outrageous "treatments" prescribed to women in the past, but this book gives a broader view of the social and economic movements of the past 150 years and how they affected women. I had never imagined that science would betray women, becoming an instrument of their subordination! I was revolted by the arrogance and obtusity of some "experts" as portrayed in this book. As a college student, how could I not be outraged by reading that "she [woman] has a head almost too small for intellect but just big enough for love" (from a 1849 obstetrics text) ???
One cannot help wondering, after reading this book, whether women are finally free to shape their own destiny and role in society. It would be great, indeed, to see an updated edition of this excellent book.
Rating: 3
Summary: not bad, but for from comprehensive study
Comment: This book is interesting since it gives histroical perspective of evolution of certain beleifs about women which are unfortunately still present. However, I was hoping for a book which would go into more detail on different treeatment of women by medical community. It is still too common that for example endometriosis sufferer in extreme pain visits a gyn only to be told that it is all in her head. Episiotomies are still performed without consent even against woman's explicit wishes with no medical justification, which makes it unique medical procedure. Also, some historical facts are oversimplified and book is a bit biased. As a woman and as a scientist, I could not consider this book objective. I do research in male dominated field, and of course I have encountered problems due to being a woman. But nevertheless when I read some (not all) feminist literature I often wonder what do these women want. It seems to me that they are after not equal rights but special treatment.
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Title: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0912670134 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: December, 1973 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0912670207 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Blood Rites : Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0805057870 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0060973331 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0385176155 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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