Cover of Complaints and disorders

Complaints and disorders

the sexual politics of sickness

by Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich

1973 94 pages eng

"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 d…

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