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The Women's Health Movement : Feminist Alternatives to Medical Control by Sheryl Burt Ruzek is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Women's Health Movement : Feminist Alternatives to Medical Control about?
Women's health as a discrete discipline began during the Second Wave of the women's movement, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It emerged simultaneously on both coasts, as a challenge to physicians and the power they wielded over healthy women and their bodies. Women wanted to understand their bodies and believed they could learn to know and examine them as well as or better than (male) doctors could. Sheryl Burt Ruzek's book describes the development of the Women's Health Movement, including these and other related activities.
Who reads The Women's Health Movement : Feminist Alternatives to Medical Control?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sheryl Burt Ruzek
- Publisher
- Praeger Publishers
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780030414367
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Medical, Medicine
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