Empowering the body : the evolution of self-help in the women's health movement
| العنوان: | Empowering the body : the evolution of self-help in the women's health movement |
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| المؤلفون: | Dudley Shotwell, Hannah Grace. |
| بيانات النشر: | [Greensboro, N.C.] : [University of North Carolina at Greensboro], [2016] |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (NCDOCKS) |
| وصف مادي: | ix, 252 pages : illustrations, digital, PDF file 1.21 MB. |
| Supplemental Data: | System requirements: PC, World Wide Web browser, PDF reader. Available online via NCDOCKS. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| مستخلص: | "This dissertation is the first historical examination of the women's health self-help movement in the late twentieth century. In the late 1960s, feminists across the country started to criticize and resist the constraints of male dominated healthcare controlled by physicians. They began forming self-help groups where they demystified their bodies by conducting their own physical examinations and reading medical literature. Some groups disseminated information by holding self-help presentations and publishing their findings. Others opened feminist health clinics and formed ongoing groups in which women conducted their own gynecological examinations and abortions, monitored their fertility, and performed donor sperm inseminations. Some self-help activists worked to influence mainstream healthcare by training medical students and holding inspections of hospitals and clinics. Women of color and indigenous women adapted self-help techniques to explore how systemic racism and colonialism shaped their mental and physical health and address problems in their communities such as fetal alcohol syndrome. In the 1990s, young women continued to spread information about self-help by creating underground publications called "zines." By participating in the self-help movement, women around the United States created an alternative healthcare system that continues to shape healthcare today."--Abstract from author supplied metadata. |
| الموضوعات: | Women Health and hygiene., Women's health services., Feminism Health aspects., Womanism Health aspects., Self-care, Health., Alternative medicine., Self Care, Complementary Therapies, Autothérapie., Médecines parallèles., Alternative medicine., Feminism Health aspects., Self-care, Health., Women Health and hygiene., Women's health services. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Academic Dissertation, Academic theses., Academic theses., Thèses et écrits académiques. |
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| ملاحظة: | Title from PDF title page (viewed Aug. 16, 2017). Directed by Lisa Levenstein ; submitted to the Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252). |
| أرقام أخرى: | NGU oai:libres.uncg.edu/19563 979987332 |
| المصدر المساهم: | From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.ocn979987332 |
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