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Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers - Paperback

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre EnglishSeries:Contemporary Classics by Women (Feminist Press)Publish date:2010-07-01Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558616615ISBN-10:1558616616UPC:9781558616615Book Category:Medical, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:History, Nursing, WitchcraftSize:7.30 x 5.20 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCVS4YZR48

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.


As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.


First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558616615ISBN-10:1558616616UPC:9781558616615Book Category:Medical, Body, Mind & SpiritBook Subcategory:History, Nursing, WitchcraftSize:7.30 x 5.20 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCVS4YZR48
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.

Publisher: Feminist Press

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2nd Edition

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

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