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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah Dudley-ShotwellPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.004kg ISBN: 9780813593036ISBN 10: 0813593034 Pages: 201 Publication Date: 13 March 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsBy bringing self-help to the center of a historical analysis of the women's health movement, Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare crucially expands our understandings of theoretical and political debates within the feminist movement around issues such as racism and intersectional marginalization, a narrow focus on reproductive health versus holistic approaches, and debates around the values of infiltration of mainstream medical care versus radical independent feminist healthcare delivery. --Jennifer Nelson author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement By bringing self-help to the center of a historical analysis of the women's health movement, Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare crucially expands our understandings of theoretical and political debates within the feminist movement around issues such as racism and intersectional marginalization, a narrow focus on reproductive health versus holistic approaches, and debates around the values of infiltration of mainstream medical care versus radical independent feminist healthcare delivery. Author InformationHANNAH DUDLEY-SHOTWELL is Faculty Scholar in the Cormier Honors College at Longwood University, Virginia. She lives in Farmville, Virginia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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