Feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities (www.merriam-webster.com). Ehrenreich and English put together a very comprehensive, well-researched book on the effects of “expert” advice on women over a two-hundred-year span. The chronicle is humorous and eye-opening. We see women being celebrated as frail, delicate creatures whose reproductive organs are the source of every illness. Later, women are descended upon by psychologists and deemed too dangerous to run a family, having what expert Sigmund Freud calls, penis envy, and ambition compelling them to end their child’s life. Mothers were considered the heart of the home for their childrearing powers, then considered too weak to raise their own sons.
