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From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify sex discrimination throughout the culture, and how its…
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The sordid history of women’s bodies and the institution of medicine is a focal point of dread for me. This is a terse study of the long history of misogyny in the medical field. It powerfully illustrates how women’s bodies have acted as sites for gender-based power struggles, along with the compounding overlay of class and race.
This book angered and inspired me, as the history it portrays is shockingly relevant to today’s discourse on reproductive rights. It’s scary as hell.
From Brittany's list on brutally capture how shitty it is to be a woman.
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