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For her own good : two centuries of the experts' advice to women / Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
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- ISBN: 9781400078004
- ISBN: 1400078008 :
- Physical Description: xix, 410 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 2nd Anchor Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2005.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
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Table of Contents
For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Foreword (2004) | ||
| 1 | In the Ruins of Patriarchy | |
| The Woman Question | ||
| The New Masculinism | ||
| Feminist and Domestic Solutions | ||
| Science and the Triumph of Domesticity | ||
| The Rise of The Experts | ||
| 2 | Witches, Healers, and Gentleman Doctors | |
| The Witch Hunts | ||
| The Conflict over Healing Comes to America | ||
| Healing as a Commodity | ||
| The Popular Health Movement | ||
| Lady Doctors Join the Competition | ||
| 3 | Science and the Ascent of the Experts | |
| The Moral Salvation of Medicine | ||
| The Laboratory Mystique | ||
| Medicine and the Big Money | ||
| Exorcising the Midwives | ||
| The Reign of The Experts | ||
| 4 | The Sexual Politics of Sickness | |
| A Mysterious Epidemic | ||
| Marriage: The Sexual-Economic Relation | ||
| Femininity as a Disease | ||
| Men Evolve, Women Devolve | ||
| The Dictatorship of the Ovaries | ||
| The Uterus vs. the Brain | ||
| The Rest Cure | ||
| Subverting the Sick Role: Hysteria | ||
| 5 | Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework | |
| The Domestic Void | ||
| The Romance of the Home | ||
| Domestic Scientists Put the House in Order | ||
| The Crusade Against Germs | ||
| The Manufacture of New Tasks | ||
| Feminism Embraces Domestic Science | ||
| "Right Living" in the Slums | ||
| Domesticity Without the Science | ||
| 6 | The Century of the Child Discovery of the Child | |
| The "Child Question" and the Woman Question | ||
| The Mothers' Movement | ||
| The Experts Move In | ||
| 7 | Motherhood as Pathology The Expert Allies with the Child | |
| The Doctors Demand Permissiveness | ||
| Libidinal Motherhood | ||
| Bad Mothers | ||
| "Momism" and the Crisis in American Masculinity | ||
| The Obligatory Oedipus Complex | ||
| Communism and the Crisis of Overpermissiveness | ||
| The Fall of The Experts | ||
| 8 | From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual Marketplace Mid-century Masochism | |
| Gynecology as Psychotherapy | ||
| Revolt of the Masochistic Mom | ||
| The Rise of the Single Girl | ||
| Spread of the Singles Culture | ||
| Popular Psychology and the Single Lifestyle | ||
| Afterword: The End of the Romance (2004) | ||
| Notes | ||
| Index | ||
| Acknowledgments |
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