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For her own good : (Record no. 43046)

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ISBN 9781400078004
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Classification number HM 340.
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Personal author Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Title For her own good :
Subtitle two centuries of the experts' advice to women
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Edition statement 2nd ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION
Place of publication New York :
Publisher Anchor Books,
Date 2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Physical description xx, 410 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-388) and index.
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Abstract From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Since 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 women, spawned legions of "scientific" experts.<br/> <br/>Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English has never lost faith in science itself, but insist 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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Subject term Women's health services
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Subject term Medical ethics
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Subject term Discrimination
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Subject term Feminism
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Subject term Sex role
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    National Library of Medicine     South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 26/04/2022 9 13.00 2 3 HM 340 EHR 023620 15/03/2023 27/01/2023 16.00 26/04/2022 Book  
    National Library of Medicine     South London and Maudsley Trust Library South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves 16/03/2022 10 10.00 2 3 ZZ 8 EHR 023649 13/03/2024 13/03/2024 10.00 16/03/2022 Book 25/06/2024
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