Overview
Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over women's health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into women's hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces this history of women's health care in the United States. It is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with more than forty movement activists, including many of its leaders; documentary material from a number of feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of women's health movement organizations in the early 1990s; ethnographic fieldwork; and the scholarship of those who have studied this development. Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, and how encounters between the movement and organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and later neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the 1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in women's health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement.
Full Product Details
Author: Sandra Morgen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9780813530710
ISBN 10: 0813530717
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 June 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement.""--Karen Brodkin ""professor of anthropology and womenÆs studies, UCLA"" 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"" In 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"""
Author Information
Sandra Morgen is director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is an anthropologist who teaches in the department of sociology. Her publications include Women and the Politics of Empowerment, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, and EnGendering Rationalities.
