Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they
gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be
no equality. In "Bodies of Knowledge, "Wendy Kline considers the
ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at
the center of women's liberation.
As Kline shows, the struggle to attain this knowledge unified women
but also divided them--according to race, class, sexuality, or
level of professionalization. Each of the five chapters of "Bodies
of Knowledge "examines a distinct moment or setting of the women's
movement in order to give life to the ideas, expectations, and
pitfalls encountered by the advocates of women's health: the making
of "Our Bodies, Ourselves "(1973); the conflicts surrounding the
training and practice of women's pelvic exams; the emergence of
abortion as a feminist issue; the battles over contraceptive
regulation at the 1983 Depo-Provera FDA hearings; and the rise of
the profession of midwifery. Including an epilogue that considers
the experiences of the daughters of 1970s feminists, "Bodies of
Knowledge "is an important contribution to the study of the
bodies--that marked the lives--of feminism's second wave.
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