Womens Health Movements

Author : Sandra Morgen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530710
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into Our Own Hands written by Sandra Morgen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.

Author : Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
Publisher : Anu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781921862670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching for Health written by Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson and published by Anu Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of the ideas and work of women's health activists. It also identifies the opportunities for health reform that werecreated along the way.

Author : Jennifer Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814770665
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Medicine written by Jennifer Nelson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how feminists of the '60s and '70s applied the lessons of the new left and civil rights movements to generate a women's health movement. The new movement shifted from the struggle to revolutionize health care to the focus of ending sex discrimination and gender stereotypes perpetuated in mainstream medical contexts. Moving from the campaign for legal abortion to the creation of community clinics and feminist health centers, Nelson illustrates how these activists revolutionized health care by associating it with the changing social landscape in which women had power to control their own life choices.

Author : Hannah Dudley-Shotwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593042
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare written by Hannah Dudley-Shotwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH)​ Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women’s frustration, anger, and fear for their health. Tired of visiting doctors who saw them as silly little girls, suffering shame when they asked for birth control, seeking abortions in back alleys, and holding little control over their own reproductive lives, women took action. Feminists created “self-help groups” where they examined each other’s bodies and read medical literature. They founded and ran clinics, wrote books, made movies, undertook nationwide tours, and raided and picketed offending medical institutions. Some performed their own abortions. Others swore off pharmaceuticals during menopause. Lesbian women found “at home” ways to get pregnant. Black women used self-help to talk about how systemic racism affected their health. Hannah Dudley-Shotwell engagingly chronicles these stories and more to showcase the creative ways women came together to do for themselves what the mainstream healthcare system refused to do.

Author : M. Turshen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607128
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health Movements written by M. Turshen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the women's health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world.

Author : Sheryl Burt Ruzek
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Health Movement written by Sheryl Burt Ruzek and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814758274
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement written by Jennifer Nelson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus. Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s through the particular contributions of women of color. She explores the relationship between second-wave feminists, who were concerned with a woman's right to choose, Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were concerned that Black and Puerto Rican women have as many children as possible “for the revolution,” and women of color themselves, who negotiated between them. Contrary to popular belief, Nelson shows that women of color were able to successfully remake the mainstream women's liberation and abortion rights movements by appropriating select aspects of Black Nationalist politics—including addressing sterilization abuse, access to affordable childcare and healthcare, and ways to raise children out of poverty—for feminist discourse.

Author : Barbara Seaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781583228449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Women's Health Movement written by Barbara Seaman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science journalist Barbara Seaman triggered a revolution in women's health with the 1969 publication of her book The Doctor's Case Against the Pill (Hunter House, 1995). Here, Seaman brings together a one-of-a-kind collection of essays, interviews and commentaries by leading activists, writers, doctors and sociologists that celebrates the progress of the women's health movement. Topics range from the early history of women as healers to contemporary activism and from self-help gynaecology in the 1970s to women's health in the 21st century.

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Studies written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Kline
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226443086
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Knowledge written by Wendy Kline and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, women argued that unless they gained information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the centre of women's liberation.