The Women S Health Movement
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The Women S Health Movement
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Author : Sheryl Burt Ruzek
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1978
The Women S Health Movement written by Sheryl Burt Ruzek and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Health & Fitness categories.
Into Our Own Hands
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Author : Sandra Morgen
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002
Into Our Own Hands written by Sandra Morgen and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Medical categories.
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.
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 1
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 1 written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Social Science categories.
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring the revolutionary ideas of several generations together in this powerful new book celebrating women’s bodies, and women’s voices. The more than two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Y. Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. With Voices of the Women’s Health Movement, for the first time, every woman and girl can experience in one place the powerful history of stirring words and strong female perspectives that have inspired countless women to take control of their health and their lives. Volume One highlights include influential writings on birth control; menstruation; pregnancy and birthing; motherhood; menopause; abortion; and lesbian, bisexual, and transgender health.
More Than Medicine
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Author : Jennifer Nelson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-03-06
More Than Medicine written by Jennifer Nelson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with History categories.
In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States immediately after World War II, especially when it came to women’s reproductive health. Both legal and medical institutions—and the male legislators and physicians who populated those institutions—reinforced women’s second class social status and restricted their ability to make their own choices about reproductive health care. In More Than Medicine, Jennifer Nelson 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. More Than Medicine poignantly reveals how social justice activists in the United States gradually transformed the meaning of health care, pairing traditional notions of medicine with less conventional ideas of “healthy” social and political environments.
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Feminism categories.
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.
Looking Through The Speculum
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Author : Judith A. Houck
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-01-19
Looking Through The Speculum written by Judith A. Houck and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-19 with Medical categories.
Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The women’s health movement in the United States, beginning in 1969 and taking hold in the 1970s, was a broad-based movement seeking to increase women’s bodily knowledge, reproductive control, and well-being. It was a political movement that insisted that bodily autonomy provided the key to women’s liberation. It was also an institution-building movement that sought to transform women’s relationships with medicine; it was dedicated to increasing women’s access to affordable health care without the barriers of homophobia, racism, and sexism. But the movement did not only focus on women’s bodies. It also encouraged activists to reimagine their relationships with one another, to develop their relationships in the name of personal and political change, and, eventually, to discover and confront the limitations of the bonds of womanhood. This book examines historically the emergence, development, travails, and triumphs of the women’s health movement in the United States. By bringing medical history and the history of women’s bodies into our emerging understandings of second-wave feminism, the author sheds light on the understudied efforts to shape health care and reproductive control beyond the hospital and the doctor’s office—in the home, the women’s center, the church basement, the bookshop, and the clinic. Lesbians, straight women, and women of color all play crucial roles in this history. At its center are the politics, institutions, and relationships created by and within the women’s health movement, depicted primarily from the perspective of the activists who shaped its priorities, fought its battles, and grappled with its shortcomings.
More Than Medicine
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Author : Jennifer Nelson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-03-06
More Than Medicine written by Jennifer Nelson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with History categories.
In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet this idea was not predominant in the United States immediately after World War II, especially when it came to women’s reproductive health. Both legal and medical institutions—and the male legislators and physicians who populated those institutions—reinforced women’s second class social status and restricted their ability to make their own choices about reproductive health care. In More Than Medicine, Jennifer Nelson 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. More Than Medicine poignantly reveals how social justice activists in the United States gradually transformed the meaning of health care, pairing traditional notions of medicine with less conventional ideas of “healthy” social and political environments.
Reaching For Health
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Author : Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
language : en
Publisher: Anu Press
Release Date : 2012
Reaching For Health written by Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson and has been published by Anu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Health & Fitness categories.
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.
Reaching For Health
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Author : Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
language : en
Publisher: ANU E Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Reaching For Health written by Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson and has been published by ANU E Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
The women's health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation. Some of the services women created for themselves were subjected to police raids; sex education material was branded 'indecent'. Moreover, women dared to criticise revered institutions, such as the medical system. Yet for all its perceived radicalism, the movement was part of a much broader and relatively conventional international health reform push, which included the 'new' public health movement, the community health centre movement and, in Australia, the Aboriginal health movement, all of which were critical of the way medical systems had been organised during the 20th century. The women who joined the movement came from diverse backgrounds and included immigrant and refugee women, Aboriginal women and Anglo women. Initially, groups worked separately for the most part but as time went on, they found ways to cooperate and collaborate. This book presents an account of the ideas, the diverse and shared efforts and the enduring hard work of women's health activists, drawn together in one volume for the first time. This relentless activism gradually had an impact on public policy and slowly brought forth major attitudinal changes. The book also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way, opportunities which deserve to be more fully embraced.
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 2
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Author : Barbara Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Voices Of The Women S Health Movement Volume 2 written by Barbara Seaman and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Social Science categories.
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring the revolutionary ideas of several generations together in this powerful new book celebrating women’s bodies, and women’s voices. The more than two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Y. Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. With Voices of the Women’s Health Movement, for the first time, every woman and girl can experience in one place the powerful history of stirring words and strong female perspectives that have inspired countless women to take control of their health and their lives. Volume Two highlights include influential writings on sex, rape and violence against women, body image, informed consent, self-help gynecology, patient advocacy, and the mind-body connection.