Bodies of Knowledge : Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave /

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Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In Bodies of Knowledge, Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women's liberatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kline, Wendy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
Reproductive health.
Women > Sexual behavior.
Women's health services.
HISTORY / General.
sex, sexuality, pregnancy, reproductive, health, second wave, feminism, history, historical, academic, scholarly, 1970s, 1980s, liberation, autonomy, race, class, discrimination, womens movement, pelvic exam, doctor, wellness, abortion, contraceptive, regulation, birth control, fda, dep provera, court, legal, childbirth, activism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Body Knowledge
  • 1. Transforming Knowledge: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
  • 2. Reexamining the Pelvic: The Pelvic Instruction Controversy of the 1970s
  • 3. Learning from the Uterus Out: Abortion and Women's Health Activism in Chicago
  • 4. Bodies of Evidence: Depo-Provera and the Public Board of Inquiry
  • 5. Choices in Childbirth: A Modern Midwife's Tale
  • Epilogue: Daughters of Feminism
  • Notes
  • Index

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