For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich

410 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced

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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...

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