Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal ...

By Barbara Ehrenreich
Series: Glass Mountain Pamphlets
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY; New Edition edition (January 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912670134
ISBN-13: 978-0912670133
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 459549
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I am torn between giving this a 4 or a 5 - in a way I would consider this work to be an essay opposed to a "book". What I thought was fascinating:First - the background of the authors (!). Apparently they brought women's studies to women in the 196

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