Complaints and Disorders The Sexual Politics of Sickness

Barbara Ehrenreich (Author); Deirdre English (Author)

$9.95

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 169
Released: July 15, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781558616950

Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. Complaints and Disorders reveals this history and asserts the need for a new substance and style of medical practice as it relates to women.
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