For Her Own Good

For Her Own Good
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780307764164
ISBN-13 : 0307764168
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis For Her Own Good by : Barbara Ehrenreich

Download or read book For Her Own Good written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the 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 woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist 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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