For Her Own Good : Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women (Paperback)

from krasiviye.slova

An interesting work of deconstruction, Ehrenreich and English sketch the rise of the "scientific" expert in American society and trace the history of the advice these experts have given women on how to be women. The authors find the problem is the unwilligness people to question the structure of ...

from LynnB

This book examines how experts, mostly male, (from medicine to consumer science) have studied, judged and prescribed all aspects of women's lives...from marriage to child rearing to every aspect of a woman's role in society. It's a thorough, highly readable, analysis. Reading this gave me a deepe...

from Meggo

This is not as enjoyable a book as Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed in America", but it did sneak up on me as I read it. The general theme is that for the past 100 years women have been getting good advice from people who truly do not have their best interests at heart. Reading this book did not tu...

from apartmentcarpet

For two centuries, doctors, psychiatrists, scientists, and politicians have been telling women what to do. Ehrenreich spins a delightful history that encompasses the trends in contraception, child rearing, marriage, and a woman's role in society. I was alternately outraged and amused, but never b...

from paisley1974

I can only read so much of this at a time, until I get too mad, and have to put it done. It's well done!