Complaints and Disorders: Sexual Politics of Sickness
"Complaints and Disorders; The Sexual Politics of Sickness" is a short book (95 pages) but that's part of what made it such a good read. Once you start reading it, you won't want to stop until you're to the last page. And there's a lot of info packed into th page 37, the author wrote, "The entire mystique of female sickness - the house calls, the tonics and medicines, the heatlh spas - served, above all, to keep a great many women busy at the task of doing nothing."
Politics & Social SciencesWomen's StudiesFeminist Theory
RELEASED1976
PUBLISHERWriters and Readers Publishing Cooperative
LENGTH96
LANGUAGEEN
"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia
Complaints and Disorders: Sexual Politics of Sickness
by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
"Complaints and Disorders; The Sexual Politics of Sickness" is a short book (95 pages) but that's part of what made it such a good read. Once you start reading it, you won't want to stop until you're to the last page. And there's a lot of info packed into th page 37, the author wrote, "The entire mystique of female sickness - the house calls, the tonics and medicines, the heatlh spas - served, above all, to keep a great many women busy at the task of doing nothing."
Politics & Social SciencesWomen's StudiesFeminist Theory
RELEASED1976
PUBLISHERWriters and Readers Publishing Cooperative
LENGTH96
LANGUAGEEN
"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia
