More Than Medicine: A History Of The Feminist Women's Health Movement - 9780814770665

This book reveals how feminists of the '60s and '70s applied the lessons of the new left and civil rights movements to generate a women's health movement. The new movement shifted from the struggle to revolutionize health care to the focus of ending sex discrimination and gender stereotypes perpetuated in mainstream medical contexts. Moving from the campaign for legal abortion to the creation of community clinics and feminist health centers, Nelson illustrates how these activists revolutionized health care by associating it with the changing social landscape in which women had power to control their own life choices.

• | Author: Jennifer Nelson
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0814770665
• | ISBN-13: 9780814770665