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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women » (Revised)
Authors: Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN-13: 9781400078004, ISBN-10: 1400078008
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: Revised
Author Biography: Deirdre English
Book Synopsis
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Table of Contents
| 1 | In the ruins of patriarchy | 3 |
| 2 | Witches, healers, and gentleman doctors | 37 |
| 3 | Science and the ascent of the experts | 76 |
| 4 | The sexual politics of sickness | 111 |
| 5 | Microbes and the manufacture of housework | 155 |
| 6 | The century of the child | 201 |
| 7 | Motherhood as pathology | 231 |
| 8 | From masochistic motherhood to the sexual marketplace | 295 |
| Afterword : the end of the romance (2004) | 341 |
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