Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
Pt. I. In the Beginning. 1. Conceiving History. 2. Foundational Stories and Movement Making. 3. On Their Own: Women of Color and the Women's Health Movement. 4. Into Our Own Hands: Feminist Health Clinics as Feminist Practice -- Pt. II. The Politics of Change in Women's Health Movement Organizations. 5. Against the Odds: Patterns of Organizational Change in Feminist Clinics in the 1970s and 1980s. 6. The Changer and the Changed: The Women's Health Movement, Doctors, and Organized Medicine. 7. Neither Friend nor Foe: The State, the Movement, and the Changing Political Landscape. 8. The Three Rs: Reagan, Retrenchment, and Operation Rescue in the 1980s. 9. The Politics of Race and Class: Dreams of Diversity, Dilemmas of Difference -- Afterword: The Movement in the 1990s: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges -- App. 1. Persons Interviewed -- App. 2. Clinics and Organizations Surveyed