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589354
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b418573
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Ehrenreich, Barbara.
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| Title & Author
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For her own good : : two centuries of the experts' advice to women /\ Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
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| Edition Statement
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Second Anchor books edition.
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xx, 410 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1400078008
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: 9781400078004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-388) and index.
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| Contents
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1. 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. 2. 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 -- 3. 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. 4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. The Century of the child. Discovery of the child ; The "child question" and the woman question ; The mothers' movement ; The experts move in -- 7. 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. 8. 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).
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| Abstract
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From the Publisher: A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
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Women-- United States-- Social conditions.
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Maternal and infant welfare-- United States-- History.
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Women's health services-- Social aspects-- United States-- History.
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Medical ethics-- United States-- History.
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Women's rights-- United States-- History.
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Women-- history.
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Women's Health Services-- history.
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Maternal Health Services-- history.
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Ethics, Medical-- history.
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Women's Rights-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.420973
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301.412
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| LC Classification
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HQ1426.E38 2005
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2005 D-218
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WZ 80.5.W5E33fa 2005
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| Added Entry
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English, Deirdre.
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