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Complaints and disorders: the sexual politics of sickness

By Ehrenreich , Deirdre , Barbara;English

Book information

Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Year
2011
ISBN
9781558616967, 1558616969
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4674417 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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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