|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990
Rutgers University Press, 2002 Cloth: 978-0-8135-3070-3 | Paper: 978-0-8135-3071-0 Library of Congress Classification RG103.M67 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.1980973
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
2004 Basker Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology 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. See other books on: Feminism | Medical | Morgen, Sandra | Political aspects | Women's health services See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Nearby on shelf for Gynecology and obstetrics:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2002
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3070-3
Paper: 978-0-8135-3071-0
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3070-3
Paper: 978-0-8135-3071-0
2004 Basker Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
