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Chapter 1 Women Organizing: Activism Worldwide -- Chapter 2 The Global Context -- Chapter 3 The Triple Day: Women's Home, Community, and Workplace Environments -- Chapter 4 Fighting for Good Health Services, Struggling with the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Chapter 5 The Sexual Politics of Violence against Women -- Chapter 6 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights -- Chapter 7 Toward a Universalism of Inclusion

The women's health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation. Some of the services women created for themselves were subjected to police raids; sex education material was branded 'indecent'. Moreover, women dared to criticise revered institutions, such as the medical system. Yet for all its perceived radicalism, the movement was part of a much broader and relatively conventional international health reform push, which included the 'new' public health movement, the community health centre movement and, in Australia, the Aboriginal health movement, all of which were critical of the way medical systems had been organised during the 20th century. The women who joined the movement came from diverse backgrounds and included immigrant and refugee women, Aboriginal women and Anglo women. Initially, groups worked separately for the most part but as time went on, they found ways to cooperate and collaborate. This book presents an account of the ideas, the diverse and shared efforts and the enduring hard work of women's health activists, drawn together in one volume for the first time. This relentless activism gradually had an impact on public policy and slowly brought forth major attitudinal changes. The book also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way, opportunities which deserve to be more fully embraced.

Preliminary -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Concepts, Concerns, Critiques -- 2. With Only Their Bare Hands -- 3. Infrastructure Expansion:1980s onwards -- 4. Group Proliferation and Formal Networks -- 5. Working Together for Health -- 6. Women's Reproductive Rights: Confronting power -- 7. Policy Responses: States and Territories -- 8. Commonwealth Policy Responses -- 9. Explaining Australia's Policy Responses -- 10. A Glass Half Full… -- Appendix 1:Time line of key events, 1960-2011 -- Appendix 2:Women interviewed for this book -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary
This article elucidates Spare Rib's (1972–1993) value as a source for considering the UK women's health movement of the 1970s and 1980s. It focusses on the magazine's role in mediating and shaping its readers' relationship to negative bodily experience, and outlines its distinctiveness within the broader feminist landscape of women's health coverage. While aspects of the British women's health movement have attracted scholarly attention, such as mental health activism and abortion campaigns, we still know relatively little about how non-activist British women interpreted their bodily experiences and health through the feminist lens offered from the early 1970s. The first part of the article focusses on Spare Rib's contribution to the British women's health movement. The second part of the article zooms in on a selection of letters that show how readers took up, and found empowerment, in modes of bodily disclosure fostered by the magazine.

The women's health movement in Britain can be divided into three main stages. During the first period, most activities took place outside the National Health Service with the emphasis on women as consumers of medical care. Feminists exposed the sexism inherent in most medical practice and stressed the need for women to gain control of reproductive technology. During the second phase, these priorities began to change towards a greater concern with the NHS and the need to defend it against reductions in resources, and increasing privatisation. These campaigns involved women not just as users of medical services, but also as health workers, bringing the women's health movement into the wider political arena. Socialist feminists argued that feminist participation in health struggles was essential if the NHS was to be not merely defended but qualitatively changed to meet the real needs of users and workers. During the third (and current) stage of the women's health movement, feminists have moved beyond a concern with medical care alone towards the development of a socialist feminist epidemiology - towards the identification and eventual elimination of those aspects of contemporary society that make women sick.

AbstractThe article contributes to a genealogy of the global articulation of reproductive rights principles, as established at the 1994 United Nations (UN) Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo and the UN Women's Conference held in Beijing the following year. It highlights the key role played by an emerging global women's health movement in the 1970s–80s, in shaping UN debates on family planning, women's rights in procreative choice and women's roles in socio‐economic development. The article focuses on the International Campaign for Abortion, Sterilisation and Contraception (est. London 1978) and the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (Amsterdam and Manila 1984; ECOSOC consultative status in 1992). Adopting an intersectional perspective, the paper highlights the local embeddedness of feminist positions, the shortcomings of Western feminism and the ways in which conflicts between women's organisations allowed for an original and evolving concept of reproductive rights to emerge. It is based on UN papers and the archives of the above organisations and family planning movements.