Full name: For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women

Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400078004 1400078008

First published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. This edition of For Her Own Good provides today's readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism. Similar books: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel Pink Think by Lynn Peril Misogyny by Jack Holland When Everything Changed by Gail Collins Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles Women of Ideas by Dale Spender All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg The World Split Open by Ruth Rosen College Girls by Lynn Peril Slut! by Leora Tanenbaum Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler America's Women by Gail Collins Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz