Witches, midwives, and nurses
Subtitle: a history of women healers
By: Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
Contributors: English, Deirdre.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781558616615
Subjects: Women in medicine -- History; Medicine -- United States -- History; Women healers -- United States -- History; History of Nursing -- United States; Nurses -- United States; Midwifery -- history -- United States; Witchcraft -- history -- United States; Women's Health -- history -- United States
Description: First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives & Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in the demonizing of women healers. With insight and originality, the authors have woven together stories about the witch hunts of the Middle Ages, the emergence of the Popular Health Movement, and an analysis of the contemporary state of medicine in relation to women's rights. In a new introduction written for this special edition, Ehrenreich and English discuss how this crucial text emerged, how much has changed, and how "for all our gains, we clearly have our work cut out for us." --from back cover.