For her own good: 150 years of the experts' advice to women
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385126502 (0385126506)
Publish date: January 1st 1978
Publisher: Anchor Press
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
OMG! Barbara Ehrenreich (and Dierdre English!!)!! If I had read this before Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, I don't know if I would have given that one 5 stars, knowing that you'd already done something like this! Excellent.
Ehrenreich 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 development and evolution of experts, the part I found most fascinating was on the creation of what we ...