Complaints and disorders : the sexual politics of sickness

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Label

Complaints and disorders : the sexual politics of sickness

Title remainder

the sexual politics of sickness

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

Creator

• Ehrenreich, Barbara

Contributor

• English, Deirdre

Subject

• History, 20th Century
• Prejudice
• Social Conditions -- history
• Socioeconomic Factors -- history
• United States
• Women -- Health and hygiene | Sociological aspects
• Women's Health -- history
• Women's Rights -- history
• History, 19th Century

Language

eng

Summary

• "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. Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of many bestselling books, including Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Deirdre English , former editor of Mother Jones magazine, is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism"--Provided by publisher
• "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 the 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"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Contemporary classics (Feminist Press)

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.1082

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

RG121

LC item number

.E43 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WA 11 AA1

Series statement

Contemporary classics