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

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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)
by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
from The Feminist Press at CUNY

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• 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.

• An Outdated and Flawed Thesis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.
  As a result, their thesis has... more info

• 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!

• 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 nurses... more info

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