02 June 2016

Review: Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

Trade paperback, 108 pages
Published 2010 (originally 1973)
Borrowed from the library
Read January 2015
Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

The co-writers trace the history of the roles of woman from the distant past to the present. There are times they come across as a little too polemical, but overall it's an interesting and engaging history: as a scholar of the nineteenth century, I found the discussion of the emergence of nursing the most interesting part.

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