Complaints and Disorders : The Sexual Politics of Sickness
ISBN: 9781558616950 | 1558616950
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTN
Pub. Date: 8/1/2011
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From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify sex discrimination throughout the culture, and how its vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of many bestselling books, including Bright-sided: How the Rel... MORE and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones magazine, is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession.
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| Introduction: A Perspective on the Social Role of Medicine | p. 31 |
| Women and Medicine in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | p. 39 |
| The "Sick" Women of the Upper Classes | p. 46 |
| The "Sickening" Women of the Working Class | p. 95 |
| Notes on the Situation Today (1973) | p. 141 |
| From Here On: Concluding Thoughts | p. 153 |
| Bibliography | p... MORE |
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