What is the author's tone in the nonfiction book, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses?

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is written with a historical, but not a neutral tone. While the authors have clearly done their scholarly due diligence, they are not neutral in their interpretation of both the past and present when it comes to misogyny and women's rights. Their writing style highlights the injustices and hypocrisies of history while demonstrating how those injustices and hypocrisies have been used to oppress women systematically and persistently. Ehrenreich and English make no apologies for history and acknowledge that their writing is fueled by "a blaze of anger" (7). Furthermore, when reading their original manuscript forty years later in preparation to write the introduction to the second edition, the authors themselves admit to cringing at elements of their original tone which included "overstatements and overly militant ways of saying things" (7). At the same time, they acknowledge that the anger in their tone was perhaps a necessary part of the motivation behind the second wave feminist movement which encouraged books like WMN to become calls-to-action. While the tone of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, is often angry, it is never hopeless. Ehrenreich and English write in a galvanizing style to encourage women to educated themselves and resist their unnatural and systematic oppression. Perhaps for this reason, the tone, syntax, content, and language style of WMN is accessible to the masses, regardless of its position in feminist academia and history.