Description
Book SynopsisA history of women's health care in the USA between 1969 and 1990. It is based on: research, including interviews with over 40 movement activists; documentary material; ethnographic fieldwork; and scholarship. It also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class.
Trade ReviewThis is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement. -- Karen Brodkin * professor of anthropology and womenÆs studies, UCLA *
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Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the womenÆs health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of womenÆs health as defined by women themselves.
-- Cynthia A. Pearson * executive director, National WomenÆs Health Network *
The strength of the book . . . lies in its attention to the organizational politics of the feminist health clinic as workplace, tracing how clinics struggled with very few resources to organize themselves as microcosms of the more equitable society they hoped for. The most important contribution the book makes is in the second half, when it describes the fates of feminist womenÆs health clinics in the 1970s and 1980s. . . . An important first overview for the many students eager to work on this topic. * Isis *
Table of ContentsIn the beginning. One conceiving history
Foundational stories and movement making
On their own women of color and the women's health movement
Into our own hands : feminist health clinics as feminist practice
The politics of change in women's health movement organizations. Against the odds : patterns of organizational change in feminist clinics in the 1970s and 1980s
The changer and the changed : the women's health movement, doctors, and organized medicine
Neither friend nor foe : the state, the movement, and the changing political landscape
The three Rs : Reagan, retrenchment, and operation rescue in the 1980s
The politics of race and class : dreams of diversity, dilemmas of difference
Afterword: The movement in the 1990s : accomplishmentsand continuing challenges
