We’re back from our break with Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
This text dives into the connections between the medical industrial complex and patriarchy, posing the questions of why and how medicine and healing became fields dominated by men.
The reading begins with the European witch trials, then moves on to men’s medical practice in universities, which women were barred from. It then touches on the banning of midwives in the US, which ultimately barred women from any aspect of medicine until the rise of nursing, which we learn had many of its own problems regarding class and gender.
The piece is a good, brief history, but does have some blind spots regarding its Eurocentrism and lack of intersectionality.
Stay tuned for more recordings in the following weeks.
Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.
Up now on my eBay! Various indie comics from 1987-2000! Grendel by Matt Wagner and the Panzer Bros, Monkey D*ick by Charla “Spike” Trotman and Toxine by Roger Licot! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
“The wise person esteems everyone, for he recognizes the good in each, and he realizes how hard it is to do things well.” – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Simone de Beauvoir, attributed in Tête-à-tête, by Hazel Rowley (via philosophybits)
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