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FDU PRESS
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| Scholarly Review |
 | Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy
ISBN# 9780838641842
Reviewed by: M.A. Saint-Germain, California State University, Long Beach
Choice, April 2010 |
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The women's health movement in the 1990s broke through the limiting idea that reproduction was women's only serious health concern. In fact, there were many other concerns: women were not included in clinical trials on common diseases such as heart attacks or in tests for new drugs; women were not included in research on HIV/AIDS; scant attention was paid to breast cancer, and almost no research was funded; violence against women was not considered a public policy issue. Baird (Purchase College, SUNY), Ain-Davis (Queens College, CUNY), and Christensen (Purchase College, SUNY) document the substantial gains made in the 1990s by activists who re-framed the terms of the debate, by powerful women in the US Senate who acted on behalf of women, by the formation of public-private coalitions and partnerships that included members of government agencies, and by the tactic of engaging the state to promote change. Written by academics and health activists, this slim volume demonstrates that women's health will never again be a nonpolitical issue. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above.
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