Into Our Own Hands

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.

ISBN 0813530717   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780813530710 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Rutgers University Press   Weight (grammes) 410 Imprint Rutgers University Press   Published in New Brunswick, NJ Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 30 Jun 2002   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2001048614   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 362.10820973   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface and Acknowledgments
Pt. I		In the Beginning
1		Conceiving History		3
2		Foundational Stories and Movement Making		16
3		On Their Own: Women of Color and the Women's Health Movement		41
4		Into Our Own Hands: Feminist Health Clinics as Feminist Practice		70
Pt. II		The Politics of Change in Women's Health Movement Organizations
5		Against the Odds: Patterns of Organizational Change in Feminist Clinics in the 1970s and 1980s		109
6		The Changer and the Changed: The Women's Health Movement, Doctors, and Organized Medicine		120
7		Neither Friend nor Foe: The State, the Movement, and the Changing Political Landscape		153
8		The Three Rs: Reagan, Retrenchment, and Operation Rescue in the 1980s		181
9		The Politics of Race and Class: Dreams of Diversity, Dilemmas of Difference		206
		Afterword: The Movement in the 1990s: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges		232
App. 1		Persons Interviewed		239
App. 2		Clinics and Organizations Surveyed		241
		Notes		243
		References		253
		Index		273

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