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As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.
First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic expose on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.
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Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history. The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early modern state.
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Meticulously researched, dry but great.
- By Matthew T Shank on 09-21-18
By: Ronald Hutton
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Natural Causes
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A razor-sharp polemic that offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we overprepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life—from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture. But Natural Causes goes deeper—into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our "mind-bodies", to use the fashionable term.
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Not what I expect from this author
- By Joanie C on 04-20-18
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Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century. Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership.
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In Defense of Witches
- The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
- By: Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis - translator
- Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado, Alix Dunmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted.
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A Bit Academic
- By Eric Lorenzen on 05-10-22
By: Mona Chollet, and others
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This Land Is Their Land
- Reports from a Divided Nation
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Here they are, the 2000s, and Barbara Ehrenreich's antidotes are as sardonic as they are spot-on: pet insurance for your kids; Salvation Army fashions for those who can no longer afford Wal-Mart; and boundless rage against those who have given us a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.
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I love the author, but...
- By Sara on 10-20-08
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Mary Magdalene Revealed
- The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet
- By: Meggan Watterson
- Narrated by: Meggan Watterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse - and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
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The Sample on audible is not from this book
- By Krykie on 08-23-19
By: Meggan Watterson
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Everything Below the Waist
- Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
- By: Jennifer Block
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar, Jennifer Block
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health.
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Everyone MUST read this book!
- By Daniella Morales on 09-07-19
By: Jennifer Block
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Bright-sided
- How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude.
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Balanced
- By Alyssa B. Goss on 10-22-09
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Caliban and the Witch
- Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
- By: Silvia Federici
- Narrated by: J. Lee Craig
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction.
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Reading, Quite Weak
- By KenLinda on 04-10-23
By: Silvia Federici
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Mother Tongue
- The Surprising History of Women's Words
- By: Jenni Nuttall
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women’s sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women’s paid and unpaid work, and gender. Along the way, she challenges our modern language’s ability to insightfully articulate women’s shared experiences by examining the long-forgotten words once used in English for female sexual and reproductive organs.
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Outstanding on all counts!
- By Emily Austin on 01-21-24
By: Jenni Nuttall
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Blood Rites
- Origins and History of the Passions of War
- By: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed.