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Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN : B0054LXSV8
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Since 1973 this path-breaking work has set the tone for taking reproductive technology, abortion, childbirth, and psychiatric evaluations away from a sexist medical profession and putting women in charge of their own bodies and healthcare.
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- File Size: 4517 KB
- Print Length: 96 pages
- Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY; 1st edition (July 1, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0054LXSV8
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I'm fairly stunned at the two two-star reviews here. This book was co-authored by Barbara Ehrenreich who went on to write several other WONDERFUL books, such as "Nickel and Dimed" and "For Her Own Good."
"Complaints and Disorders; The Sexual Politics of Sickness" is a short book (95 pages) but that's part of what made it such a good read. Once you start reading it, you won't want to stop until you're to the last page. And there's a lot of info packed into those pages.
On page 37, the authors write, "The entire mystique of female sickness - the house calls, the tonics and medicines, the heatlh spas - served, above all, to keep a great many women busy at the task of doing nothing."
That's what was done to women in the Victorian era. In modern times, we use beauty and weight as the lure to "keep women busy as the task of doing nothing."
There's also some background info on how women healers (or witches, as the men liked to call them) were removed from power so male doctors could enjoy their ascension to power and wealth.
It's one of a handful of books I've pressed into the hands of my daughter and said, "you have GOT to read this book." And *that's* the highest recommendation.
By Rosemary Thornton
VINE VOICE
If you're interested in the subject the bibliography alone is worth the purchase. Great illustrations and a nice discussion with good primary source quotes on both upper/middle class women and working class women and their relationship with medicine from the turn of the last century.
By D. Rubel