Complaints and Disorders

By - Ehrenreich, Barbara,; English, Deirdre

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Feminist Press, New York, 2011

ISBN 10 - 1558616950

ISBN 13 - 9781558616950

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 362.1981 EHR 2011

Edition - 2nd ed

Physical Description - 173 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Book Information

In the follow-up to the perennially classic study Witches, Midwives and Nurses (Feminist Press, 2010 - also available from Turnaround), Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English explore the evolution of the medical view of the female sex and how it has been used to reinforce the social view of women. Beginning in the late 19th century, women's inferiority was 'proven' through medical science. Today, the medical establishment still serves to give 'scientific justifications' for the sexist values of society.

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