Complaints and disorders
Subtitle: the sexual politics of sickness
By: Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
Contributors: English, Deirdre
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Contemporary classics
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781558616950
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Health and hygiene; Socioeconomic Factors; History; History, 19th Century; Women's Health; Women's Rights; Social Conditions; Prejudice; Women; History, 20th Century
Description: "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.<B>Barbara Ehrenreich</B> 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.<B>Deirdre English</B>, 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.