![]() ![]() Most of the work is manual, with help of 120 years old manual paper-cutter and paper creasing machine. I do design, layout of the book, print them at digital printer and then do the whole binding process, from cutting it into right format, putting it all together and trimming it to final size. To know our history is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again.īook is manually bound in small series of 30 in each print-run. We confined ourselves to western history, since the institutions we confront today are the products of western civilization. This pamphlet represents a beginning of the research which will have to be done to recapture our history as health workers. Women healers were people’s doctors, and their medicine was part of a people’s subculture. It is a political struggle, second, in that it was part of a class struggle. When women healers were attacked, they were attacked as women when they fought back, they fought back in solidarity with all women. The status of women healers has risen and fallen with the status of women. ![]() This introduction contextualizes the original manuscript, written in the 1970s, and updates some of the authors’ initial assertions based on more recent scholarship. The suppression of female healers by the medical establishment was a political struggle, first, in that it is part of the history of sex struggle in general. The 2010 edition of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (WMN) opens with a new introduction by the authors. ![]()
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