For Her Own Good

Name: For Her Own Good
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ISBN: 9780861040629

ISBN-10: 0861040627

ISBN-13: 9780861040629

Edition: 1979

Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich

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Are women by their very nature as frail, as prone to disease, as vulnerable and as inept as the experts appear to believe? In For Her Own Good, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English dismantle 150 years of scientific and medical advice to women and ask why it was that women were apparently so eager to accept the opinion of 'professionals' on every aspect of their lives - be it health care, childcare, motherhood, diet, housework, or sex.Were the rules and logic of scientific progress, supposedly working for the good of humanity at large, as impartial as they were claimed to be? Or were the expert opinions in fact just another weapon in the arsenal of patriarchy - an effective device to…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 11/20/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long
Language: English

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.