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Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America  Cover Image Book Book

Revolutionizing women's healthcare : the feminist self-help movement in America / Hannah Dudley-Shotwell.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813593029
  • ISBN: 0813593026
  • Physical Description: ix, 186 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
United States.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Crawford County.

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Crawford County Library-Bourbon 362.1 SHO (Text) 33431000533461 Adult Non-Fiction Available -

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"--

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