Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers Paperback - 2010
by Barbara Ehrenreich; Deirdre English
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Readers largely describe Witches, Midwives and Nurses as a concise, accessible, and galvanizing feminist history that links the persecution of “wise women” and midwives to women’s exclusion from professional medicine and the gendering of nursing. Many praise it as a foundational, thought?provoking primer that still feels relevant and often infuriating, even if its scope is brief. Critiques center on dated analysis and rhetoric, Western focus, thin sourcing and omissions (e.g., the origins of gynecology and figures like J. Marion Sims), and an overly polemical treatment of nursing and Florence Nightingale. The authors’ later foreword acknowledging overstatements softened some objections, but most readers still view the work as a catalyst for further, more nuanced study rather than a definitive scholarly account.
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- Title Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers
- Author Barbara Ehrenreich; Deirdre English
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: secon
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Feminist Press, New York
- Publication date 2010-07-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781558616615 / 1558616616
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 in (18.54 x 13.21 x 0.76 cm)
- Category Medical / Nursing
- Library of Congress subjects Nurses - United States, Medicine - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010009446
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.82
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