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Author Dudley-Shotwell, Hannah, author.

Title Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America / Hannah Dudley-Shotwell
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes In English
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Subject Women's health services -- United States
Women's health services -- Political aspects -- United States
Feminism -- Health aspects -- United States
Women's health services.
Feminism.
Women's Health Services
Feminism
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Feminism
Feminism -- Health aspects
Women's health services
Women's health services -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813593043
0813593042
0813593069
9780813593067