Into Our Own Hands

The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990

By: Sandra Morgen

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Paperback | 1 June 2002

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"In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the women's health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of women's health as defined by women themselves." --Cynthia A. Pearson, executive director, National Women's Health Network "This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement."--Karen Brodkin, professor of anthropology and women's studies, UCLA 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 own hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the women's health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of women's health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movement's encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces in 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 organizations.

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This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement. -- Karen Brodkin * professor of anthropology and womenAEs studies, UCLA *
In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the womenAEs health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of womenAEs health as defined by women themselves.
-- Cynthia A. Pearson * executive director, National WomenAEs Health Network *
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 womenAEs health clinics in the 1970s and 1980s. . . . An important first overview for the many students eager to work on this topic. * Isis *

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