Complaints And Disorders

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Ensayista y activista social estadounidense. Desde 1991 hasta 1997 ha sido columnista habitual en la revista Time y ha escrito para publicaciones como The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Z Magazine. Desde agosto de 2005 escribe para el periódico The Progressive.