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Complaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

Complaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Classics

Medical ReferenceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1558616950
ISBN13: 9781558616950
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: Aug 2 2011
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
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 vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.

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