Complaints and Disorders The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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.
Health & FitnessWomen's HealthHealth Care IssuesMedicalHistoryEthics
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERFeminist Press at CUNY
LENGTH173
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 The Sexual Politics of Sickness
by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
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.
Health & FitnessWomen's HealthHealth Care IssuesMedicalHistoryEthicsPolitical ScienceCivil Rights
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERFeminist Press at CUNY
LENGTH173
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
