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For Her Own Good is an interesting tale: the evolution of the relationship of women and experts and all its twists, turns, and cul-de-sacs. It is difficult to imagine a more fraught relationship in our modern society, or one in which a party has been so manipulated, ill-treated, and generally oppressed. Although Ehrenreich is certainly biased, it seems understandable: any student of history can see the same anti-woman threads woven throughout, even without Ehrenreich's thorough treatment of them
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