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Author Gray Jamieson, Gwendolyn

Title Reaching for health : the Australian women's health movement and public policy / Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson
Published Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (PDF file (xvi, 394 pages))
Contents Concepts, concerns, critiques -- With only their bare hands -- Infrastructure expansion: 1980s onwards -- Group proliferation and formal networks -- Working together for health -- Women's reproductive rights: confronting power -- Policy responses: states and territories -- Commonwealth policy responses -- Explaining Australia's policy responses -- A glass half full ... -- Appendix 1, Time line of key events, 1960-2011 -- Appendix 2, Women interviewed for the book
Summary This book presents an account of the ideas and work of women's health activists. It also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way
Analysis Women's health movement
Women
Healthcare
Politics
Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 7, 2012)
In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Subject Birth control -- Australia -- History
Contraception -- Australia -- History
Sex discrimination against women -- Australia -- History
Women's health services -- Australia -- History
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History
Women's Health Services -- history
Women's Health -- history
Women's Rights -- history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Law.
Laws of Specific jurisdictions.
Medical and healthcare law.
Political structure and processes.
Politics and government.
Social law.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Birth control
Contraception
Sex discrimination against women
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women's health services
SUBJECT Australia
Subject Australia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781921862670
192186267X
1921862688
9781921862687