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

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.

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 08/02/2011
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781558616950
ISBN10: 1558616950
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | History
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and Salon.com.

Deirdre English is the former editor of Mother Jones magazine. She has written for the Nation, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Magazine, S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue, and public radio and television. Currently, English is a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.