Articles

No. 3(45) (2022)

The “Sickening” Women of the Working Class

Barbara Ehrenreich
Deirdre English

Pages: 147-164

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Abstract

The text is an excerpt from the book Complaints & Disorders. The Sexual Politics of Sickness, which is a continuation of the monograph Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. The authors try to prove that medical history was tainted with sexism, doctors consistently treated working-class women as a hotbed of disease, and rulers used Darwinism to introduce sexist and classist practices.