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Author Nelson, Jennifer, 1967- author.

Title More than medicine : a history of the feminist women's health movement / Jennifer Nelson
Published New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "Years before discussing social and racial disparities in health became fashionable, some feminists were insisting that women's health and reproductive freedom could not be achieved without addressing issues such as poverty, nutrition, and economic inequality. In More Than Medicine, Jennifer Nelson uses exciting new primary research to trace the history of the movement for reproductive justice, from the 1960s to the present. She skillfully tells the story of the activists who fought to broaden health reform beyond medical care, and to broaden the feminist movement beyond abortion rights. Everyone interested in the past, present, and future of health reform, women's rights, and human rights should read this book."--Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- United States -- History
Reproductive rights -- United States -- History
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women's Health -- history
Women's Rights -- history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Reproductive Rights -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Feminism
Reproductive rights
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women's rights
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Estados Unidos
United States
Genre/Form Historia
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0814762905
9780814762905
9780814770894
0814770894