Evolution of a women's clinic: An alternate system of medical care

Gray, Mary Jane; Tyson, Judith

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(76)90665-7

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“…Particularly in the 1970s, feminist clinics could not necessarily count on finding physicians who embraced – or were even sympathetic to – the project of transforming women’s healthcare (Gray and Tyson, 1976; Morgen, 2002). Physicians often resented the marginalization of their expertise, disliked having their authority questioned by non-professionals, and were perturbed at the prospect of patients diagnosing themselves and dictating their own treatment (Gray and Tyson, 1976; Joffe et al, 2004; Morgen, 2002; Watkins, 1998). Clinics took many steps in order to reduce physicians’ institutional and symbolic authority over both clients and healthworkers.…”

Section: History Of the Women’s Health Movement And Feminist Clinicsmentioning

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Making appropriation ‘stick’: Stabilizing politics in an ‘inherently feminist’ tool

Hasson

2012

Soc Stud Sci

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This article examines how feminist politics are made to 'stick' to appropriated technologies in the context of a contemporary feminist women's health clinic in the US. Feminist clinics such as 'FemHealth', founded as part of 1970s women's health movements, put medical tools and knowledge into lay women's hands, making the appropriation of medical technologies a centerpiece of their political project. In the process, they rejected the authority of physicians and gave new politicized meanings to the tools they claimed as their own. As lay healthworkers at FemHealth continued the project of appropriation, they also continued to negotiate their dependence on physicians to perform tasks that required a medical license. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with healthworkers, I argue that struggles over the role and authority of physicians in this clinic play out through debates over two similar and competing tools used in the abortion procedure: the single-tooth tenaculum and the cervical stabilizer. Many healthworkers invested in the stabilizer as 'inherently feminist' in hopes that it would maintain its politics even when passed into physicians' hands. While appropriation depends on the ability of users to alter a technology's meanings, actors may feel invested in the new politics taken on by appropriated tools and work towards making those meanings persist, or 'stick'.

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Section: History Of the Women’s Health Movement And Feminist Clinicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making appropriation ‘stick’: Stabilizing politics in an ‘inherently feminist’ tool

Hasson

2012

Soc Stud Sci

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Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India

Bhargava

1983

Social Science & Medicine

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Provision and organization of abortion and sterilization services in the United States

Hodgson¹,

Ward²

1981

Abortion and Sterilization

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Evolution of a women's clinic: An alternate system of medical care

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Making appropriation ‘stick’: Stabilizing politics in an ‘inherently feminist’ tool

Making appropriation ‘stick’: Stabilizing politics in an ‘inherently feminist’ tool

Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India

Provision and organization of abortion and sterilization services in the United States

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