For Her Own Good Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women 2nd Edition by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN 1400078008 9781400078004

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ISBN 10: 1400078008 

ISBN 13: 9781400078004

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English 

This women’s history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts.
 
Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.

Table of contents:

ONE: In the Ruins of Patriarchy

• The Woman Question

• The New Masculinism

• Feminist and Domestic Solutions

• Science and the Triumph of Domesticity

THE RISE OF THE EXPERTS

TWO: Witches, Healers, and Gentleman Doctors

• The Witch Hunts

• The Conflict over Healing Comes to America

• Healing as a Commodity

• The Popular Health Movement

• Lady Doctors Join the Competition

THREE: Science and the Ascent of the Experts

• The Moral Salvation of Medicine

• The Laboratory Mystique

• Medicine and the Big Money

• Exorcising the Midwives

THE REIGN OF THE EXPERTS

FOUR: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

• A Mysterious Epidemic

• Marriage: The Sexual-Economic Relation

• Femininity as a Disease

• Men Evolve, Women Devolve

• The Dictatorship of the Ovaries

• The Uterus vs. the Brain

• The Rest Cure

• Subverting the Sick Role: Hysteria

FIVE: Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework

• The Domestic Void

• The Romance of the Home

• Domestic Scientists Put the House in Order

• The Crusade Against Germs

• The Manufacture of New Tasks

• Feminism Embraces Domestic Science

• “Right Living” in the Slums

• Domesticity Without the Science

SIX: The Century of the Child

• Discovery of the Child

• The “Child Question” and the Woman Question

• The Mothers’ Movement

• The Experts Move In

SEVEN: Motherhood as Pathology

• The Expert Allies with the Child

• The Doctors Demand Permissiveness

• Libidinal Motherhood

• Bad Mothers

• “Momism” and the Crisis in American Masculinity

• The Obligatory Oedipus Complex

• Communism and the Crisis of Overpermissiveness

THE FALL OF THE EXPERTS

EIGHT: From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual Marketplace

• Mid-century Masochism

• Gynecology as Psychotherapy

• Revolt of the Masochistic Mom

• The Rise of the Single Girl

• Spread of the Singles Culture

• Popular Psychology and the Single Lifestyle

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