Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America /
Dudley-Shotwell, Hannah,
Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America / Hannah Dudley-Shotwell. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Enacting Feminism -- 2. Revolutionizing Gynecology -- 3. Reforming Women's Healthcare -- 4. Radicalizing Healthcare -- 5. Looking beyond the Speculum -- 6. Reintroducing Menstrual Extraction -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
"Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. Tired of doctors who saw them as silly little girls, shame over birth control, abortions in back alleys, and little control over their reproductive lives, feminists created the self-help movement. In an effort to revolutionize women's healthcare they founded clinics, created books and movies, raided medical institutions, performed abortions, and created national organizations"--
9780813593043
Women's health services--United States.
Women's health services--Political aspects--United States.
Feminism--Health aspects--United States.
Women's health services.
Feminism.
Electronic Books.
RA564 / .R486 2020
Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America / Hannah Dudley-Shotwell. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Enacting Feminism -- 2. Revolutionizing Gynecology -- 3. Reforming Women's Healthcare -- 4. Radicalizing Healthcare -- 5. Looking beyond the Speculum -- 6. Reintroducing Menstrual Extraction -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
"Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. Tired of doctors who saw them as silly little girls, shame over birth control, abortions in back alleys, and little control over their reproductive lives, feminists created the self-help movement. In an effort to revolutionize women's healthcare they founded clinics, created books and movies, raided medical institutions, performed abortions, and created national organizations"--
9780813593043
Women's health services--United States.
Women's health services--Political aspects--United States.
Feminism--Health aspects--United States.
Women's health services.
Feminism.
Electronic Books.
RA564 / .R486 2020