Titre :	Complaints and disorders : the sexual politics of sickness
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Barbara Ehrenreich, Auteur ; Deirdre English, Auteur
Editeur :	London : Compendium
Année de publication :	1974
Collection :	Glass mountain pamphlet
Importance :	94 p.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Féminismes Santé
Tags :	Women's health  medecine  sexism in medecine
Résumé :	Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture-in education, in jobs, and in public life. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. By the late 19th century, when the authority of religious documents had waned, the ultimate rationale for sex discrimination became solely biomedical. In this pamphlet, the authors raise the diffuclt question: "How sick-or well-are women today?" They assert that feminists today want more than "more": "We want a new style, and we want a new substance of medical practice as it relates to women."

Complaints and disorders : the sexual politics of sickness [texte imprimé] / Barbara Ehrenreich, Auteur ; Deirdre English, Auteur . - London : Compendium, 1974 . - 94 p.. - (Glass mountain pamphlet) .
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Féminismes Santé
Tags :	Women's health  medecine  sexism in medecine
Résumé :	Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citing vivid examples, including numerous "treatments" and "rest cures" perpetrated on women through the decades, the authors analyze the biomedical rationale used to justify the wholesale sex discrimination throughout our culture-in education, in jobs, and in public life. Ever since Hippocrates, male medics have treated women as the "weaker" sex. By the late 19th century, when the authority of religious documents had waned, the ultimate rationale for sex discrimination became solely biomedical. In this pamphlet, the authors raise the diffuclt question: "How sick-or well-are women today?" They assert that feminists today want more than "more": "We want a new style, and we want a new substance of medical practice as it relates to women."