Reaching for health : the Australian women's health movement and public policy /
Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson.
- Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, �2012.
- 1 online resource (PDF file (xvi, 394 pages))
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Concepts, concerns, critiques -- With only their bare hands -- Infrastructure expansion: 1980s onwards -- Group proliferation and formal networks -- Working together for health -- Women's reproductive rights: confronting power -- Policy responses: states and territories -- Commonwealth policy responses -- Explaining Australia's policy responses -- A glass half full ... -- Time line of key events, 1960-2011 -- Women interviewed for the book. Appendix 1, Appendix 2,
This book presents an account of the ideas and work of women's health activists. It also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way.
English.
9781921862670 192186267X 1921862688 9781921862687
22573/ctt2361c0 JSTOR
101594790 DNLM
Birth control--History.--Australia Contraception--History.--Australia Sex discrimination against women--History.--Australia Women's health services--History.--Australia Women--Health and hygiene--History.--Australia Women's Health Services--history Women's Health--history Women's Rights--history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century R�egulation des naissances--Histoire.--Australie Contraception--Histoire.--Australie Discrimination �a l'�egard des femmes--Histoire.--Australie M�edecine--Histoire--20e si�ecle. M�edecine--Histoire--21e si�ecle. Law. Laws of Specific jurisdictions. Medical and healthcare law. Political structure and processes. Politics and government. Social law. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Disease & Health Issues. Birth control. Contraception. Sex discrimination against women. Women--Health and hygiene. Women's health services.
Australia Australia.
Women's health movement Women Healthcare Politics Australia