For Her Own Good - Brossura

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0861040627 ISBN 13: 9780861040629

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 1988

Riassunto

Are women by their very nature as frail, as prone to disease, as vulnerable and as inept as the experts appear to believe? In For Her Own Good, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English dismantle 150 years of scientific and medical advice to women and ask why it was that women were apparently so eager to accept the opinion of 'professionals' on every aspect of their lives - be it health care, childcare, motherhood, diet, housework, or sex. Were the rules and logic of scientific progress, supposedly working for the good of humanity at large, as impartial as they were claimed to be? Or were the expert opinions in fact just another weapon in the arsenal of patriarchy - an effective device to subjugate adn neutralise women? Ehrenreich and English supply a fascinating perspective on female history in this brilliant account of pundits and their victims over the last century and a half.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic socialist, sociologist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0861040627
• ISBN 13: 9780861040629
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384