Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women's Health Movement

by Judith A. Houck

Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women's health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.

The women's health movement in the United States, beginning in 1969 and taking hold in the 1970s, was a broad-based movement seeking to increase women's bodily knowledge, reproductive control, and well-being. It was a political movement that insisted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226830861
• ISBN13: 9780226830865
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"