Reaching for health : the Australian women's health movement and public policy / Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray Jamieson, Gwendolyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Australia--History.

Birth control.

Contraception--Australia--History.

Contraception.

Sex discrimination against women--Australia--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Women's health services--Australia--History.

Women's health services.

Women--Health and hygiene--Australia--History.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The women's health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation.

Contents:

Preliminary

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Concepts, Concerns, Critiques

2. With Only Their Bare Hands

3. Infrastructure Expansion:1980s onwards

4. Group Proliferation and Formal Networks

5. Working Together for Health

6. Women's Reproductive Rights: Confronting power

7. Policy Responses: States and Territories

8. Commonwealth Policy Responses

9. Explaining Australia's Policy Responses

10. A Glass Half Full…

Appendix 1:Time line of key events, 1960-2011

Appendix 2:Women interviewed for this book

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781921862670

192186267X

OCLC:

821155346

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459488