Into our own hands : the women's health movement in the United States, 1969-1990 / Sandra Morgen.

Author/creator Morgen, Sandra
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxv, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents In the beginning. One conceiving history -- Foundational stories and movement making -- On their own women of color and the women's health movement -- Into our own hands : feminist health clinics as feminist practice -- The politics of change in women's health movement organizations. Against the odds : patterns of organizational change in feminist clinics in the 1970s and 1980s -- The changer and the changed : the women's health movement, doctors, and organized medicine -- Neither friend nor foe : the state, the movement, and the changing political landscape --The three Rs : Reagan, retrenchment, and operation rescue in the 1980s -- The politics of race and class : dreams of diversity, dilemmas of difference -- Afterword: The movement in the 1990s : accomplishmentsand continuing challenges.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index.
LCCN 2001048614
ISBN0813530709 (hbk.)
ISBN0813530717 (pbk.)