Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave - Softcover

Kline, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226443086 ISBN 13: 9780226443089

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Throughout the 1970s and &;80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In Bodies of Knowledge, Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women&;s liberation.

As Kline shows, the struggle to attain this knowledge unified women but also divided them&;according to race, class, sexuality, or level of professionalization. Each of the five chapters of Bodies of Knowledge examines a distinct moment or setting of the women&;s movement in order to give life to the ideas, expectations, and pitfalls encountered by the advocates of women&;s health: the making of Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973); the conflicts surrounding the training and practice of women&;s pelvic exams; the emergence of abortion as a feminist issue; the battles over contraceptive regulation at the 1983 Depo-Provera FDA hearings; and the rise of the profession of midwifery. Including an epilogue that considers the experiences of the daughters of 1970s feminists, Bodies of Knowledge is an important contribution to the study of the bodies&;that marked the lives&;of feminism&;s second wave.

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Wendy Kline is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom.

 

Wendy Kline is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226443086
• ISBN 13: 9780226443089
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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