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It was well-written and seemingly well-researched. - Goodreads Light reading for intro-feminists. - Goodreads Strong, clear writing throughout. - Goodreads I also found the writing style to be convoluted. - Goodreads Review: For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to WomenUser Review - Ida - GoodreadsInteresting read - I learned a lot of things I didn't know about the origin of old "truths". However, I think the title should have been "experts' advice to women in the United States" to emphasize that the book focuses on the US. Read full review Review: For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to WomenUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsFirst published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have ... Read full review Related books
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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesadvice American baby become began behavior biological Charlotte Perkins Oilman child raising child-raising experts childbirth Christine Frederick clitoris Congress of Mothers course culture disease domestic science domestic scientists Ellen Richards fact Fanny Wright father female feminine feminism feminist germs girls gynecologists healers healing Helene Deutsch Home Economics homemaking household housekeeping human husband Ibid ical ideal ideology industrial infant invalidism Journal labor laboratory Ladies Lake Placid living male Market masculine maternal medical profession menopause ment middle-class midwife moral motherhood natural never nineteen nineteenth century Old Order Olive Schreiner organs ovaries overprotected parents patient patriarchal physician poor Popular Health Movement problem professional psychology Quoted reform regular doctors Rockefeller role scientific sexual sick sixties social society Spock Stanley Hall theory thev things Thomsonian tion uterus wife witch Woman Question women workers wrote York young Bibliographic information
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