Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

For Her Own Good (eBook, ePUB)

Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307764164
• Artikelnr.: 39602469

Autorenporträt

Barbara Ehrenreich has written and lectured widely on subjects related to health care and women's issues. She has contributed articles to Time, Harper's, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. She is the bestselling author of nearly 20 books including Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. Deirdre English has written, taught, and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, and public policy. She has contributed to Mother Jones, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications, and to public radio and television.

Inhaltsangabe

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