More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Medicine May Be the Way We Got in the Door: Social Justice and Community Health in the Mid-1960s 15 2. Thank You for Your Help ... Six Children Are Enough: The Abortion Birth Control Referral Service 57 3. Reproductive Control, Sexual Empowerment: The Aradia Women's Health Center and the Early Movement for Feminist Health Reform 91 4. Conserving Feminist Health Care, Confronting Anti-Abortion: The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center 123 5. All This That Has Happened to Me Shouldn't Happen to Nobody Else: Loretta Ross and the Women of Color Reproductive Freedom Movement of the 1980s 167 6. Women of Color and the Movement for Reproductive Justice: A Human Rights Agenda 193 Notes 221 Index 253 About the Author 265