a history of the feminist women's health movement /
Jennifer Nelson
xi, 265 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Medicine may be the way we got in the door" : social justice and community health in the mid-1960s -- "Thank you for your help ... six children are enough" : the abortion birth control referral service -- Reproductive control, sexual empowerment : the Aradia Women's Health Center and the early movement for feminist health reform -- Conserving feminist health care, confronting anti-abortion : the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center -- "All this that has happened to me shouldn't happen to nobody else" : Loretta Ross and the women of color reproductive freedom movement of the 1980s -- Women of color and the movement for reproductive justice : a human rights agenda
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"More Than Medicine poignantly reveals how social justice activists in the United States gradually transformed the meaning of health care, pairing traditional notions of medicine with less conventional ideas of "healthy" social and political environments"--
Feminism-- United States-- History
Reproductive rights-- United States-- History
Women-- Health and hygiene-- United States-- History-- 20th century
Women's rights-- United States-- History-- 20th century