They were followed by a horde of more specialized experts, each group claiming dominion over some area of women's lives, and all claiming that their authority flowed directly from biological science. A tour de force through the history of the medical establishment, capitalism, psychiatry, child-rearing, feminism and modern society in general that draws a lot of really interesting connections. The problem wasn't a lack of things to do. 1.3K. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Among the experts diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. Original Price 8.99 It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. She was twenty years old, happily married, and, physically at least, seemed to be making a good recovery from tuberculosis. It hit young Jane Addams-the famous social reformer-at the same time of life. Get help and learn more about the design. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. But only in the last one hundred years or so in the Western world does this private dilemma surface as a gripping public issue-the Woman Question or "the woman problem." Away from home and in the company of other women who were passionate about learning, I saw the world open up to me. The most important work on women since The Feminine Mystique. The ballad of Edna Pontellier sings of the caged-bird claustrophobia caused by societal expectations, and laments the limits of . I found the writing stale, textbook style and cumbersome. I rose drearily, and essayed to brush up the floor a little, with a dustpan and small whiskbroom, but soon dropped those implements exhausted, and wept again in helpless shame.I, the ceaselessly industrious, could do no work of any kind. Haciendo un repaso desde los cambios producidos entre la sociedad pre-industrial y la industrial, y presentando los distintos conceptos que hubo sobre la mujer por parte de los hombres (de los expertos) a lo largo del siglo XIX y de la primera mitad del siglo XX, estas dos autoras exponen de forma, en mi opinim, muy eficaz (y de importancia an ahora, dcadas despus) un mbito ms de la opresin patriarcal. Great! All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.2Incredible, once unthinkable, possibilities opened up as all the "fixed, fast-frozen relations"-between man and woman, between parents and children, between the rich and the poor-were thrown into question. They couldn't be included in the men's world, yet they no longer seemed to fit in their traditional place. in English. : To redeem, copy and paste the code during the checkout process. "Certainly the question had been asked before Charlotte Perkins Gilman's and Jane Addams's generation, and certainly other women had collapsed because they did not have the answers. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. I loved the first 150 pages, much of which dealt with illness, healing, medicine, and/or mens ideas of their own authority when practicing medicine: I enjoy Ehrenreich and her ideas about life and work. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. I'm not surprised she's upset, but she has to understand that we're doing this for her own good. It is a long, challenging process. : web pages Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and understand that Penguin Random House collects certain categories of personal information for the purposes listed in that policy, discloses, sells, or shares certain personal information and retains personal information in accordance with the policy. 272 pages, Paperback. Returning home from a brief period of independence, she found herself almost too weak to do household chores. the book had writing on a lot of the pages and it was underlined in some places. 9 - 10 Hours to read. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The experts wooed their female constituency, promising the "right" and scientific way to live, and women responded-most eagerly in the upper and middle classes, more slowly among the poor-with dependency and trust. It describes most of the women I know with great detail and insight and then it goes on to give excellent prescriptive advice about how to make changes from being too good to being good to oneself. An excellent examination of advice literature on "the woman question" over the past two centuries. Please. : Instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, A Kindle book to borrow for free each month - with no due dates, Listen to over 2 million songs and hundreds of playlists, Unlimited photo storage with anywhere access. See also: for, good. But, as Ehrenreich points out, there are many people who buy into the romance of the woman invalid, the lobotomized housewife, and sheltered female who never has to make an important decision. : He, the father, makes the decisions which control the family's work, purchases, marriages. In fact, I was quite relieved to be done so I could move on to some light fiction -- although the book was full of interesting, often shocking, facts, reading it almost felt like homework by the end. She shares these tips for other women living with vaginitis, yeast infections, or BV: Be willing to adjust your lifestyle. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English has never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. did this book really need updating? Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced searchad free! "It was as if they had come to the brink of adult life and then refused to go on. uses rationality informed by moral insight to meet the experts head-on.The Boston Globe, Foreword (2004) ONE In the Ruins of Patriarchy The Woman Question The New Masculinism Feminist and Domestic Solutions Science and the Triumph of DomesticityTHE RISE OF THE EXPERTSTWO 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 CompetitionTHREE Science and the Ascent of the Experts The Moral Salvation of Medicine The Laboratory Mystique Medicine and the Big Money Exorcising the MidwivesTHE REIGN OF THE EXPERTSFOUR 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: HysteriaFIVE 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 ScienceSIX The Century of the Child Discovery of the Child The Child Question and the Woman Question The Mothers Movement The Experts Move InSEVEN 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 OverpermissivenessTHE FALL OF THE EXPERTSEIGHT From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual MarketplaceMid-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 LifestyleAfterword: The End of the Romance (2004) Notes Index Acknowledgments, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. To save this word, you'll need to log in. I want to wave it under the nose of every person who thinks the feminist movement was a mistake. Share to Twitter. For her own good : 150 years of the experts' advice to women by Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre. Those partners may have their own information theyve collected about you. Con bastante documentacin y un hilo muy claro, se aborda un tema tan poco reconocido como es, bsicamente, el robo sistemtico y organizado por parte del "nuevo patriarcado" (organizado alrededor de los hombres especialistas) de conocimientos y espacios propios de las mujeres, con el fin de comercializarlos o, simplemente, expropirselos. Find out more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. "Claudia Dreifus, author of Seizing Our Bodies, The Politics of Women's Health Care "For Her Own Good gives us a perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of childhood, unlike any we have had. What was her contribution to her household? She distills volumes of fact and theory into an entertaining and even funny narrative. 41.1K. 8.09, 8.99 What was interesting was that through the ages women have been considered: gentile, naive, in need of protection, masochistic, ignorant, at-fault, and a host of other things at both ends of the spectrum. First published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. 41.3K. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Reading this book (alongside other books such as Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Anything in Virginia Woolf's collection, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and others) I became extremely aware of the women who fought so hard so that someday I could have an education and the possibility of equality in my own society. Since the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Insider hears that the MEN Arena has blacklisted the Hollyoaks babe, not so much, Based on the head-butt happy antics of a real cow in the illustrator's herd, Nosy Noodles: The Curious Cow is the story of a black cow with white legs who is too nosy, off the charts and a bracing command of racial epithets inherited from her blinkered and bigoted father (James Woods), Kimberly is "too smart, Sophie got in a bit of a tangle because she was being too nosey. For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English: 9781400078004 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints. Physicians were the first of the new experts. Accessed 18 Apr. For the benefit of others; for purposes that are pure and not evil. 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