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A review by magalys
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich
4.0
This book was well written given the amount of information it gives you. Obviously, a lot of research was done to create this book and it simultaneously gave the authors' own ideas.
My only complaint with this book that while reading this, I seem like it was very much a journey of a white woman's journey of feminism. The authors do recognize that women of color, specifically black women have and do suffer more but it was only brought up a handful of times, as a side note or parenthetical. So to me it was a one dimensional way of telling the history of society's manner of advising women in a way that supported that patriarchy.
My only complaint with this book that while reading this, I seem like it was very much a journey of a white woman's journey of feminism. The authors do recognize that women of color, specifically black women have and do suffer more but it was only brought up a handful of times, as a side note or parenthetical. So to me it was a one dimensional way of telling the history of society's manner of advising women in a way that supported that patriarchy.