A review by elizabethlk
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness by Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich

3.0

Complaints and Disorders is a really interesting look into the ways women were viewed within the medical industry as patients throughout history. They cover a lot of good ground about the way class played an especially strong role in the way women experienced medical sexism. I wish they had covered more to do with race (they mention it several times, but manage to avoid actually doing a proper delve into the subject) and on women who were legitimately disabled or sick (who they mention exist but don't really look into the topic of their treatment at all).

I would recommend this to anyone looking to read more books from second-wave feminism, and to anyone looking for the briefest introduction into sexism in the medical industry.