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Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (2010, Feminist Press at the City University of New York) 4 stars

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, …

A great feminist (and interconnected oppressions) read

4 stars

A brief and resounding argument that the male-dominated medical profession is an recent aberration created by violence in consolidating and support of class power. Emphasis on how expert/evidence/professionalization comes at the end of the process - to start, elite doctors were dangerously uninformed in comparison to folk healers. But the latter's propensity to undermine power and support agitation for class and gender equality movements led to systematic persecution.