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Abortion At Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (Can Feminism and Bureaucracy Coexist ...
Wendy Simonds

Rutgers University Press, 1996

How do feminist identity and abortion politics intersect? Specifically, what does feminism mean to women working to provide feminist health care and abortion services in the late 1980s and early 1990s? What are the ideological consequences and emotional tolls of doing such work in a hostile socio-cultural environment? Can feminism and bureaucracy coexist productively? How do feminists confront the anti-feminist opposition, from anti-abortion ...

Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature (Health, Society, and Policy)
Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman

Temple University Press, 1992

Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (2nd Edition)

3 reviews
Mindy Stombler, Dawn M. Baunauch, ...

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex
I took Dr. Stombler's Sexuality and Society class at Georgia State University for which this book is the text. It served as an excellent companion to the material she was covering, as well as just an all around great collection of informative and interesting articles. I'd recommend it (as well as the class itself) to anyone wanting to inform, and re-inform in some cases, themselves about ...

Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States (Perspectives on Gender)
Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, ...

Routledge, 2006

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization ? best seen in a cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent ? and a rhetoric of women's "choices" and "the natural," women and their midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses labor on. Laboring On offers the voices of all of these practitioners, all women trying ...

Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic

3 reviews
Wendy Simonds

Rutgers University Press, 1996

OUR BODIES OUR CHOICES
I must admit that I write this review mainly in response to the one other review that this book has recieved. I must first state that I find his comment on the author's "energetic enthusiasm to present uncloaked her feminist vision of procreative liberty..." to reveal HIS perverse evaluation of women that leaves ME shocked and disturbed. Is it not more perverse for women to cloak and hide ...