Seizing Our Bodies, Used [Paperback]

The Politics of Women's Health. All Americans suffer from the organization of the medical system, but women, by virtue of their reproductive systems, suffer more; obstetrics-gynecology is staffed by a physician population that is 93 percent male. Nearly every American woman must deal with a masculine point of view at the most crucial periods of her life: when she needs contraception, when she gives birth, when she enters menopause, more often than not she confronts a system of thought that encourages her to think of normal functions as illness. As this anthology demonstrates, women in recent years have refused to accept such a verdict. Females of all ages, races, classes are joining together in a social movement proclaiming that women should control their own bodies. Here twenty-four leading writers, investigative journalists, activists, academicians, and scientists discuss various aspects of what is wrong and suggest how we can change it. - Summary From Back Cover - Book Edited by Claudia Dreifus

Seizing Our Bodies, Used [Paperback]