No Turning Back: The Feminist Resource Website
The Politics of Health and Sexuality
9. Medicine, Markets, and the Female Body
10. Reproduction: The Politics of Choice
11. Sexualities, Identities, and Self-Determination
12. Gender & Violence
9. Medicine, Markets, and the Female Body
Primary source documents from feminist history
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1899) remains a feminist health classic. The story has inspired a number of student web pages and message boards.
"The Politics of Women's Health" is an excerpt from the most recent edition of the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves
Poster art from the Chinese Cultural Revolution created heroic figures of women - you can take a close look at these images, and compare them to the post-1980s images, on Stefan Landsberger's Poster Pages (commercial links).
Cultural critique
FAT?SO! is a hip site "for people who don't apologize for their size."
About Face offers a spirited activist approach to countering "starvation" representations of women in media.
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Ms. Magazine online is a well known feminist magazine.
Contemporary organizations and resources
| Female Genital Cutting: A collection of essays and resources from the Harvard School of Public Health's Research Library On the effects of work on women's health, turn to the National Institute for Working Life, based in Sweden, which holds international conferences on "Women, Work, and Health" The National Breast Cancer Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to educating women about breast cancer. You can immediately support their work by clicking here to help low-income women receive free mammograms. EngenderHealth works globally to provide education and information on maternal health, family planning, health risks, sexuality issues, and men's health. For current U.S. information on women and disabilities, see the National Women's Health and Information Center |
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Factsheet on Women with Disabilities and Development
The U.S. Office of Research on Women's Health is a focal point for education and research.
The Global Alliance for Women's Health is an international education and advocacy organization.
Empowering Women in Medicine at the Feminist Majority Foundation
Breast Cancer Action is a grassroots group that works with other breast cancer groups to bring about legislative changes in women's healthcare at both the state and federal level
The Women's Sports Foundation was founded in 1974 by Billie Jean King to seek girls' and women's equal access in participation and leadership opprtunities in sports and fitness. See their research and advocacy on Title IX
Contact the The Black Women's Health Imperative at: 600 Pennsylvania Ave SE, suite 310, Washington, D.C. 20005 Ph: (800) 444-6472
Recommended films:
Beyond Killing Us Softly (series) by Jean Kilbourne
Slaying the Dragon by Deborah Gee
10. Reproduction: The Politics of Choice
Contemporary organizations and resources
Reproductive
Rights organizations in the U.S. include Planned
Parenthood; site includes sections on Contraceptive
Choices and Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs)
The United Nations Population Fund surveys key issues around the world
The National Abortion Rights Action League works to ensure that women have the right to safe and legal abortion, contraceptive options, and quality reproductive healthcare
The Feminist Women's Health Center of Washington offers a particularly rich web collection of resources, in English and Spanish.
Data
The Global Reproductive Health Forum at Harvard School of Public Health offers a chain of substantive sites around reproductive issues, global reproductive rights and human rights, reproductive technologies, and reproductive issues affecting women of color
"The Facts: The World's Abortion Laws" from The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Research site: Coerced Sterilization of Native American women
Recommended films
La Operacion by Ana Maria Garcia exposes the pervasive use and abuse of sterilization among women in Puerto Rico.
Choosing Children by Debra Chasnoff and Kim Klausner captures the diversity of ways lesbians are having and raising children.
11. Sexualities, Identities, and Self-Determination
Primary source documents from feminist history
Anna Koedt, "Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm"
"Defining the Woman-Identified Woman"
The World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights
Contemporary organizations and resources
The U.N. considers reproductive rights and discrimination against girls as matters of life and death
FSD Alert confronts the medicalization of female sexuality
and the
commercialization of treatments for "female sexual dysfuction."
See their Manifesto,
"A New View of Women's Sexual Problems."
The International Lesbian and Gay Association organizes across 80 countries.
For
resources on bisexuality, see the
Bisexual Resource Center
In the U.S., the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force combats legal discrimination, as does the National Center for Lesbian Rights
The Lesbian History Project at USC includes the Lesbians of Color history project
Gender & Sexuality at the E Server: A collection of essays
Recommended films
Girls Like Us by Jane Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio
Primary source documents from feminist history
Second
wave feminist responses to violence included self-defense training for
women -- check out this revised version of the cartoon character Olive
Oyl from the Women's Patrol of Minneapolis (1975) titled "Olive
Oyl's Common Sense Self Defense"
Contemporary organizations and resources
Until the Violence Stops (VDAY) - An international coalition of organizations to end violence against women and girls
Black Women's Website against racist sexual violence offers information and resources for women in Britain.
Speakout South Africa offers information, resources, and news on sexual violence; also see the Rape Crisis Center for links to local phone counseling
For U.S. programs to end domestic violence, including ways to reach boys and men, see Endabuse: The Family Violence Prevention Fund
The Sexual Assault Information Page includes multiple reference and research resources
WomenStrength is a unit of the Portland, Oregon police department that offers free self-defense training and personal safety awareness workshops.
The National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)
10 Things Men Can Do to to End Sexism and Male Violence Against Women
For self-defense classes in the San Francisco Bay area, contact Women Defending Ourselves
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network
Data
Recommended films
In Harm's Way by Jan Krawitz asks some difficult questions about cultural norms surrounding sexual assault
No Longer Silent by Laurette Deschamps portrays Indian women activists fighting gender discrimination in India's legal and medical professions
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