For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich (2005, Trade Paperback, Revised edition)

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

1400078008

9781400078004

30529283

For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women

Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

Trade Paperback

English

Revised

Women, Ethics, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Health, Civil Rights, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies

2005

Health & Fitness, Medical, History, Social Science, Political Science

432 Pages

7.9in

0.9in

5.2in

12 Oz

Hq1426.E38 2005

Revised Edition

2

  "A splendidly bold and readable review of medical, psychological and social theory since the industrial revolution."-- The Guardian (London)   "A landmark work: It changes everything one believed before about doctors, scientists, and all other kinds of patriarchal experts. The most important work on women since The Feminine Mystique ."--Claudia Dreifus, author of Seizing Our Bodies, The Politics of Women's Health Care " For Her Own Good gives us a perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of childhood, unlike any we have had. I have read it with mounting intellectual excitement, underlining, marking pages, arguing form start to finish with its authors in my head. It is humanly and theoretically fascinating, written with clarity, wit, and verve and with a deep concern for the future."--Adrienne Rich " For Her Own Good . . . uses rationality informed by moral insight to meet the 'experts' head-on."-- The Boston Globe, "A splendidly bold and readable review of medical, psychological and social theory since the industrial revolution."-- The Guardian (London) "A landmark work: It changes everything one believed before about doctors, scientists, and all other kinds of patriarchal experts. The most important work on women since The Feminine Mystique ."--Claudia Dreifus, author of Seizing Our Bodies, The Politics of Women's Health Care " For Her Own Good gives us a perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of childhood, unlike any we have had. I have read it with mounting intellectual excitement, underlining, marking pages, arguing form start to finish with its authors in my head. It is humanly and theoretically fascinating, written with clarity, wit, and verve and with a deep concern for the future."--Adrienne Rich " For Her Own Good . . . uses rationality informed by moral insight to meet the 'experts' head-on."-- The Boston Globe

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

2005

Trade

2005-272032