For Her Own Good: 150 Years Of The Experts' Advice To Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

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Are women by their very nature as frail, as prone to disease, as vulnerable and as inept as the experts appear to believe? In For Her Own Good, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre Engli sh dismantle 150 years of scientific and medical advice to women and ask why it was that women were apparently so eager to accept the opinion of 'professionals' on every aspect of their lives - be it health care, childcare, motherhood, diet, housework, or sex. Were the rules and logic of scientific progress, supposedly working for the good of humanity at large, as impartial as they were claimed to be? Or were the expert opinions in fact just another weapon in the arsenal of patriarchy - an effective device to subjugate adn neutralise women?Ehrenreich and English supply a fascinating perspective on female history in this brilliant account of pundits and their victims over the last century and a half. This 1979 PLUTO PRESS Paperback is in good condition. Owner's Name inside. Cover rubbed, slight foxing to the page edges. ISBN: 9780861040629 SKU: 1580072 This image is of the actual book. Show more