A review by town_scar
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Deirdre English, Barbara Ehrenreich

Did not finish book.

2.0

I couldn't finish it. The subject is fascinating but the writing style is very ... unnecessary. As my mom put it: "I felt out of my depths reading it. And if you felt out of your depths as a woman who has taken numerous women's studies courses at your (women's) college, imagine how out of my depths I felt!"

My mother and I are both very well read and yet neither of us could get through it. This book wasn't written for the common woman. It's almost like it was exclusively written for experts, ironically.