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

Name: Bodies of Knowledge Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave
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ISBN: 9780226443089

ISBN-10: 0226443086

ISBN-13: 9780226443089

Edition: 2010

Authors: Wendy Kline

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, women argued that unless they gained to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. InBodies 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 themaccording to race, class, sexuality, or level of professionalization. Each of the five chapters ofBodies of Knowledgeexamines 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 ofOur Bodies,…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Wendy Kline is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Body Knowledge



Transforming Knowledge: The Making of Our Bodies Ourselves



Reexamining the Pelvic: Instruction Controversy of the 1970s



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



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



Choices in Childbirth: A Modern Midwife's Tale


Epilogue Daughters of Feminism


Notes


Index