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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sandra MorgenPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.312kg ISBN: 9780813530710ISBN 10: 0813530717 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 June 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIn 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 challengesReviews"""This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement.""--Karen Brodkin ""professor of anthropology and womenÆs studies, UCLA"" The strength of the book . . . lies in its attention to the organizational politics of the feminist health clinic as workplace, tracing how clinics struggled with very few resources to organize themselves as microcosms of the more equitable society they hoped for. The most important contribution the book makes is in the second half, when it describes the fates of feminist womenÆs health clinics in the 1970s and 1980s. . . . An important first overview for the many students eager to work on this topic.-- ""Isis"" In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the womenÆs health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of womenÆs health as defined by women themselves.--Cynthia A. Pearson ""executive director, National WomenÆs Health Network""" Author InformationSandra Morgen is director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is an anthropologist who teaches in the department of sociology. Her publications include Women and the Politics of Empowerment, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, and EnGendering Rationalities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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