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    Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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    Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

    By Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

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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 vestiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Feminist Press at CUNY
    Release dateJul 1, 2011
    ISBN9781558616967
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    Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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    Barbara Ehrenreich

    Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books included Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as "a classic in social justice literature", Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In the Streets, and Blood Rites. An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.

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