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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.69
EAN: 9780912670133
ISBN: 0912670134
Label: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Studio: The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Editorial Review:
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 of the women's movement.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - disappointing
I purchased this book looking for an historical perspective of women healers. Although this book does provide a history it is extremely biased towards the feminist idealogy. The book was written in the 70's and it shows with it's bias and underlying anger. The good thing about reading this is to realise how far women and the health system have come in the equality debate.
Rating:  - An Outdated and Flawed Thesis
Ehrenreich and English's book has been highly influential in some feminist and New Age circles since its publication in the early 70s. Its thesis - that the women persecuted as "witches" in the Witch Craze tended to be midwives and healers - fits neatly with some ideological views of the suppression of women and has since been seen as historical confirmation of a patriarchal desire to control science and medicine and maintain control over birth, healing and women's bodies.
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Rating:  - great easy read
It's less than 50 pages long, but it's a great short history about witches, midwives, and nurses. It tells about how the profession began and why there aren't more women in the field today. It's good to learn the history of things that is rarely talked about. I would highly recommend this book to whoever may be interested!
Rating: - interesting bit of history
As a witch and a labor/delivery nurse, of course I had to check out this pamphlet. History is the key word in the title. This pamphlet was published in the early 1970's as a propaganda tool for the feminist women's liberation movement. The history it works through is mostly valid, entertaining (the pics especially), and informative. The discussion on the current state of health care may have been the case in the early 1970's, but in no way represents modern times. Gone are the days where female ... Read More
Rating:  - Classic and worth reading
For any one interested in women's history and in the real idea of "total history" from the Annales school, this book is a must. Of course is not perfect, what it is? However it is time to recover our past, and for that we have to depart from a different perspective, even if it is threatening and contested by some.
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