From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify sex discrimination throughout the culture, and how its vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
ISBN: 9781558616950
Condition: New
Dimensions: 7.30 x 0.40
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Year: 2011

Language: English

Complaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

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