Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990

by Sandra Morgen

Book Overview

Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates.

Into Our Own Hands traces the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530717
• ISBN13: 9780813530710
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"