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100 1 $aEhrenreich, Barbara.
245 10 $aFor her own good :$btwo centuries of the experts' advice to women /$cBarbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English.
250 $aAnchor Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books,$c2005.
300 $axiv, 369 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1978.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForward (2004) -- 1. 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. 2. 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 -- 3. 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. -- 4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. The Century of the child. Discovery of the child ; The "child question" and the woman question ; The mothers' movement ; The experts move in -- 7. 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. 8. 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 -- Afterword : the end of the romance (2004).
520 $aContains primary source material
520 $a"Since 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 women, spawned legions of "scientific" experts." - Provided by publisher
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