Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave
By Wendy Kline
()
About this ebook
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.
Related to Bodies of Knowledge
Related ebooks
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGod's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBirthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBirth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Psychology of Gender and Health: Conceptual and Applied Global Concerns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMobile Midwives: Transforming Birth Options Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPractical Birth Control: Being a Revised Version of Safe Marriage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBabylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLabor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDefiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModern Motherhood: An American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrave: Young Women’s Global Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTangled Diagnoses: Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men Explain Things to Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Close Encounters with Addiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Bodies of Knowledge
0 ratings0 reviews