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User Review - wealhtheowwylfing - LibraryThingEhrenreich and English look at what kind of advice we've been given for the last two hundred years. Although they provide a good deal of social, political, economic, and general background to the ... Read full review
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User Review - quantum_flapdoodle - LibraryThingA history of how the status of women has changed since the Industrial Revolution, when the modern gender roles were delineated based on the new divisions of labor. Very well researched, and well ... Read full review
Contents
TWO Witches Healers and Gentleman Doctors | 33 |
THREE Science and the Ascent of the Experts | 69 |
Mystique Medicine and the Big Money Exorcising | 93 |
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| Title | For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women Anchor books Anchor library of women's studies |
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Contributor | Deirdre English |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Anchor Books, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0385126514, 9780385126519 |
| Length | 369 pages |
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