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Into Our Own Hands - The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990 (Paperback)
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"In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the
women's health movement started, but how it weathered adversity.
This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the
future of women's health as defined by women themselves." --Cynthia
A. Pearson, executive director, National Women's Health Network
"This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to
our understanding of the feminist health movement."--Karen Brodkin,
professor of anthropology and women's studies, UCLA Recent history
has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the
late 1960s, women in communities across the United States
challenged medical and male control over women's health. Few people
today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted
power and responsibility from the medical establishment into
women's own hands as health care consumers, providers, and
advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the women's 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 women's 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 movement's encounters with organized
medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal
political forces in the 1970s to the 1980s shaped the
confrontations and accomplishments in women's health care. The book
also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class
within the movement organizations.
General
Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2002 |
First published: |
2002 |
Authors: |
Sandra Morgen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8135-3071-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8135-3071-7 |
Barcode: |
9780813530710 |
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