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Personal and political : stories from the women's health movement 1960-2010

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  • Author: Greaves, Lorraine
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    Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and services, and challenged a medically dominated healthcare system. Feminists challenged diagnoses, treatments, laws, policies, and research, as well as the care women were offered the way they saw their bodies and themselves. Legions of women, and a few men, made changes ranging from abortion rights to preserving women's hospitals, to the legalization of midwifery to requiring gendered research. Changes that still resonate in the 21st century.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History, Medicine, health and fitness, Social science
    Subject(s): Canada
    Original Publisher: Toronto , Second Story Press
    Language(s): English

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Abstract

Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and services, and challenged a medically dominated healthcare system. Feminists challenged diagnoses, treatments, laws, policies, and research, as well as the care women were offered the way they saw their bodies and themselves. Legions of women, and a few men, made changes ranging from abortion rights to preserving women's hospitals, to the legalization of midwifery to requiring gendered research. Changes that still resonate in the 21st century.

Genre
Canadian nonfiction
History
Medicine, health and fitness
Social science
Subject
Canada
Publisher (Source)

Toronto

Second Story Press

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