Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics)
Brand: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Categories: Books, Religion & Spirituality, New Age & Spirituality


Feminist Press

Dimensions: 5.25 x 0.4 x 7.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1558616615
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558616616
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Print length: 112 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2010
subtitle: Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 2010
author: Visit Amazon's Barbara Ehrenreich Page search results Barbara Ehrenreich Visit Amazon's Deirdre English Page search results Deirdre English
review: Editorial Reviews Review "This booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women's suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed the wisewomen healers, leaving themselves to be the sole practitioners of their 'scientific' medicine. The information presented here gives a whole new perspective to medical history and points to some of the causes underlying our current healthcare mess." ― WomanSource Catalog & Review About the Author Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times . She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and Salon.com. Deirdre English is the former editor of Mother Jones magazine. She has written for the Nation, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Magazine, S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue , and public radio and television. Currently, English is a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.