The Women S Health Movement

Author : Sandra Morgen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813530717

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Into Our Own Hands by Sandra Morgen Pdf

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 : Jennifer Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814762776

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More Than Medicine by Jennifer Nelson Pdf

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.

Author : Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
Publisher : Anu Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 192186267X

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Reaching for Health by Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson Pdf

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 : Sheryl Burt Ruzek
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038766932

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The Women's Health Movement by Sheryl Burt Ruzek Pdf

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Clinical trials
ISBN : UCLA:L0067757112

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Recruitment and Retention of Women in Clinical Studies by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health Pdf

Author : M. Turshen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230607125

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Women's Health Movements by M. Turshen Pdf

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 : Hannah Dudley-Shotwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813593043

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Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare by Hannah Dudley-Shotwell Pdf

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 : Tasha N. Dubriwny
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813554020

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The Vulnerable Empowered Woman by Tasha N. Dubriwny Pdf

The feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women’s health issues to public attention. Decades later, women’s health issues are more visible than ever before, but that visibility is made possible by a process of depoliticization The Vulnerable Empowered Woman assesses the state of women’s healthcare today by analyzing popular media representations—television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs—in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life. From narratives about prophylactic mastectomies to young girls receiving a vaccine for sexually transmitted disease, the representations of women’s health today form a single restrictive identity: the vulnerable empowered woman. This identity defuses feminist notions of collective empowerment and social change by drawing from both postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies. The woman is vulnerable because of her very femininity and is empowered not to change the world, but to choose from among a limited set of medical treatments. The media’s depiction of the vulnerable empowered woman’s relationship with biomedicine promotes traditional gender roles and affirms women’s unquestioning reliance on medical science for empowerment. The book concludes with a call to repoliticize women’s health through narratives that can help us imagine women—and their relationship to medicine—differently.

Author : Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1583228446

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Voices of the Women's Health Movement by Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge Pdf

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 : Shannon Sullivan,Nancy Tuana
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791480038

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Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance by Shannon Sullivan,Nancy Tuana Pdf

Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills's claim that racism involves an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance. Contributors explore how different forms of ignorance linked to race are produced and sustained and what role they play in promoting racism and white privilege. They argue that the ignorance that underpins racism is not a simple gap in knowledge, the accidental result of an epistemological oversight. In the case of racial oppression, ignorance often is actively produced for purposes of domination and exploitation. But as these essays demonstrate, ignorance is not simply a tool of oppression wielded by the powerful. It can also be a strategy for survival, an important tool for people of color to wield against white privilege and white supremacy. The book concludes that understanding ignorance and the politics of such ignorance should be a key element of epistemological and social/political analyses, for it has the potential to reveal the role of power in the construction of what is known and provide a lens for the political values at work in knowledge practices.

Author : Marina Morrow,Olena Hankivsky,Colleen Varcoe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442690547

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Women's Health in Canada by Marina Morrow,Olena Hankivsky,Colleen Varcoe Pdf

In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country. To lay out the methodological and theoretical foundations for their study, editors Olena Hankivisky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from economics, anthropology, sociology, nursing, political studies, women's studies, and psychology. Contributors draw on the rich history of the Canadian women's health movement, providing analysis of that history and of the emergent theory, policy, and practice. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners, the collection adopts an intersectional approach, looking closely at social factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and gender identity, and analysing how they relate both to each other and to women's health. Connections between the social, economic, and cultural contexts of women's lives and their physical, spiritual, and mental well-being are a primary focus. Providing a much needed resource for teachers, students, and practitioners of women's health in Canada, this comprehensive volume makes an important contribution to the literature.

Author : Donna Cherniak,Allan Feingold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Birth control
ISBN : OCLC:14140909

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Birth Control Handbook by Donna Cherniak,Allan Feingold Pdf

Author : Jennifer Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814758274

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Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson Pdf

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 : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Women's Health Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309163378

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Women's Health Research by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Women's Health Research Pdf

Even though slightly over half of the U.S. population is female, medical research historically has neglected the health needs of women. However, over the past two decades, there have been major changes in government support of women's health research-in policies, regulations, and the organization of research efforts. To assess the impact of these changes, Congress directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ask the IOM to examine what has been learned from that research and how well it has been put into practice as well as communicated to both providers and women. Women's Health Research finds that women's health research has contributed to significant progress over the past 20 years in lessening the burden of disease and reducing deaths from some conditions, while other conditions have seen only moderate change or even little or no change. Gaps remain, both in research areas and in the application of results to benefit women in general and across multiple population groups. Given the many and significant roles women play in our society, maintaining support for women's health research and enhancing its impact are not only in the interest of women, they are in the interest of us all.

Author : Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609804442

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Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volume 1 by Barbara Seaman,Laura Eldridge Pdf

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.