For Her Own Good by Ehrenreich, Barbara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Authors Other Books by These Authors Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword (2004) One: In the Ruins of Patriarchy

The Woman Question The New Masculinism Feminist and Domestic Solutions Science and the Triumph of Domesticity

The Rise of the Experts

Two: Witches, Healers, and Gentleman Doctors

The Witch Hunts The Conflict over Healing Comes to America Healing as a Commodity The Popular Health Movement Lady Doctors Join the Competition

Three: Science and the Ascent of the Experts

The Moral Salvation of Medicine The Laboratory Mystique Medicine and the Big Money Exorcising the Midwives

The Reign of the Experts

Four: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

A Mysterious Epidemic Marriage: The Sexual-Economic Relation Femininity as a Disease Men Evolve, Women Devolve The Dictatorship of the Ovaries The Uterus vs. the Brain The Rest Cure Subverting the Sick Role: Hysteria

Five: Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework

The Domestic Void The Romance of the Home Domestic Scientists Put the House in Order The Crusade Against Germs The Manufacture of New Tasks Feminism Embraces Domestic Science “Right Living” in the Slums Domesticity Without the Science

Six: The Century of the Child

Discovery of the Child The “Child Question” and the Woman Question The Mothers’ Movement The Experts Move In

Seven: Motherhood as Pathology

The Expert Allies with the Child The Doctors Demand Permissiveness Libidinal Motherhood Bad Mothers “Momism” and the Crisis in American Masculinity The Obligatory Oedipus Complex Communism and the Crisis of Overpermissiveness

The Fall of the Experts

Eight: From Masochistic Motherhood to the Sexual Marketplace

Mid-century Masochism Gynecology as Psychotherapy Revolt of the Masochistic Mom The Rise of the Single Girl Spread of the Singles Culture Popular Psychology and the Single Lifestyle

Afterword: The End of the Romance (2004) Notes Acknowledgments