For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400078004 (1400078008)
ASIN: 1400078008
Publish date: January 4th 2005
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 410
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 ...
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