Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare
The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America
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2020
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9303-6 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9303-6 (ISBN)
Tells the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women's frustration, anger, and fear for their health. Hannah Dudley-Shotwell engagingly showcases the creative ways women came together to do for themselves what the mainstream healthcare system refused to do.
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.
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.
HANNAH DUDLEY-SHOTWELL is Faculty Scholar in the Cormier Honors College at Longwood University, Virginia. She lives in Farmville, Virginia.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Enacting Feminism: The Origins of Gynecological Self-help
2 Revolutionizing Gynecology: Self-help in Feminist Clinics
3 Reforming Women’s Healthcare: Self-help as Feminist Activism
4 Radicalizing Healthcare: Advanced Uses for Gynecological Self-help
5 Looking Beyond the Speculum: Holistic Self-help
6 Reintroducing Menstrual Extraction: Self-help Abortion after Roe
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.03.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9303-4 / 0813593034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9303-6 / 9780813593036 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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