Bodies of knowledge : sexuality, reproduction, and women's health in the second wave / Wendy Kline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kline, Wendy, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Women's health services.

Reproductive health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the 1970's and '80's, 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 1970's feminists, Bodies of Knowledge is an important contribution to the study of the bodies-that marked the lives-of feminism's second wave.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Body Knowledge

1. Transforming Knowledge: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves

2. Reexamining the Pelvic: The Pelvic Instruction Controversy of the 1970's

3. Learning from the Uterus Out: Abortion and Women's Health Activism in Chicago

4. Bodies of Evidence: Depo-Provera and the Public Board of Inquiry

5. Choices in Childbirth: A Modern Midwife's Tale

Epilogue: Daughters of Feminism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612894725

9781282894723

1282894722

9780226443072

0226443078

OCLC:

676697597