Deirdre English

Deirdre English (b.1948) is an American journalist who has written and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policy.

Her work includes For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’s Advice to Women, co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich and published with a new Afterword in 2004 (Anchor/Doubleday).

Her work also includes Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, and Complaints and Disorders: the Sexual Politics of Sickness.

Her essay on the work of photographer Susan Meiselas was published in Carnival Strippers, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003.

Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, edited by Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman, Library of America, 2021.