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By demonstrating the struggle for sound standard of care for non-medical reproductive health care providers during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Health care reformReproductive Health ServicesReproductive Healthreproductive historyOrganizationsCarol Downer was a reproductive health and abortion rights activist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US and other countries. During…
AbortionWomen's rights--United States--History--20th centuryCannulaWomen's health services--United StatesAmerican Public Health AssociationEvelyn Lorraine Rothman advocated for women’s reproductive rights and invented at-home kits for women’s health concerns in the late twentieth century…
Downer, CarolAbortionObstetricsBirth ControlMenstrual regulationThe Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, hereafter Union or CWLU, was a feminist union that operated in Chicago, Illinois, from 1969 to 1977 and was the…
OrganizationWomen's rightsSexismFamily PlanningfeminismIn 2014, Mary Dore directed the documentary 'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,' which details the events and accomplishments of the women’s…
LiteraturefeminismWomen's rightsEqual RightsReproductive HealthIn 1904, physician William Henry Walling published Sexology, a family medicine reference book. In his book, Walling proposed that his guidance would…
LiteratureMasturbationCoitus interruptusSexSexologyThe Boston Women’s Health Book Collective was a women’s health organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that published the informational…
OrganizationfeminismReproductive HealthEqual RightsHealth education of womenJane Elizabeth Hodgson was a physician who advocated for abortion rights in the twentieth century in the United States. In November of 1970, Hodgson…
AbortionInduced AbortionBirth ControlReproductive RightsContraceptionA vaginal speculum is a medical device that allows physicians and health providers to better view a woman’s cervix and vagina during pelvic exams…
VaginaHysteriaGynecologySecond-wave feminismReproductionLydia Estes Pinkham invented and sold Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a medicinal tonic used to treat menstrual discomfort and promote female…
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