Seizing our bodies : the politics of women's health / edited and with an introduction by Claudia Dreifus.

New York : Vintage Books, [1977], ©1977.

xxxi, 321 pages ; 21 cm

1st ed.

"A Vintage original, January 1978."

Copy 1. Donor: Tom Hopkins.

Bibliography: p. 313-317.

pt. 1. History/Herstory -- The women's health movement: past roots / Helen Marieskind -- Sexual surgery in Late Nineteenth-Century America / G. J. Barker-Benfield -- Complaints and disorders: the sexual politics of sickness / Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English -- The birth controllers / Jean Sharpe -- pt. 2. The means of reproduction -- The dangers of oral contraception / Barbara Seaman -- A case of Corporate malpractice and the Dalkon Shield / Mark Dowie and Tracy Johntson -- Sterilizing the poor / Claudia Dreifus -- Have you ever wondered about the male pill / Rita Arditti -- Abortion: this piece is for remembrance / Claudia Dreifus -- The theft of childbirth / Adrienne Rich -- pt. 3. Institutionalized male-practice -- The dangers of sex hormones / Barbara Seaman -- The pushers / Amanda Spake -- The politics of breast cancer / Rose Kushner -- The epidemic in unnecessary hysterectomy / Deborah Larned -- What doctors won't tell you about menopause / Rosetta Reitz -- What medical students learn about women / Kay Weiss -- The class factor: Mountain women speak out on women's health / Deborah Baker -- pt. 4. Women workers in the medi-buisiness -- Women workers in the health service industry / Carol A. Brown -- Building a hospital workers' union: Doris Turner, the woman from 1199 / Claudia Dreifus -- pt. 5. Taking our bodies back : the women's health movement -- Vaginal politics / Ellen Frankfort -- The women's health movement: where are we now / Rachel Gillett Fruchter, Naomi Fatt, Pamela Booth and Diana Leidel of the HealthRight Collective -- Women and health care: a comparison of theories / Elizabeth Fee