Box of items related to Womens' Self-Help Clinics of the early 1970s USA and UK

Title

Box of items related to Womens' Self-Help Clinics of the early 1970s USA and UK

Subject

Womens; Self-Help clinics SWA.327.A Pamphlets, newsletters, etc from the 'Feminist Womens' Health Center' Los Angeles From 1971-73. Includes an article 'IN THE SEARCH FOR SELF-KNOWLEDGE HOW MUCH OF YOURSELF ARE YOU PREPARED TO SEE?' Carolyn Faulder explains the vaginal politics behind Self-Help.
SWA.327.B Article by Serena Wadham 'SELF-HELP' in Britain, about Carol Downer and Debi Law visiting Britain and Europe from the FWHC in California, helping to set up Self-Help clinics. Included is a note from Christine Sparks (assistant features editor of WOMAN magazine in 1974) "our readers not quite ready for the kind of frankness shown in this article"
SWA.327.C A couple of letters from Nancy Mackeith and Rose Star re Womens' conferences

Description

A box of related items.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s some feminists involved in the Womens' Liberation Movement of that time, encouraged women take control of their bodies by learning to examine themselves using a speculum, a torch and a mirror. This included demanding safe and legal abortions on demand.
The book 'Our Bodies Ourselves' by and for women was published in 1970 on this same theme.
Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman were the leaders of the group that founded the 'Feminist Womens' Health Center' in Los Angeles in 1971. They travelled the US to share their information and help to set up other groups around the country. Serena Wadham subscribed to the FWHC newsletter, and photographed Carol Downer speaking at the ICA in London in 1973 about the Californian self-help clinic.
Serena then photographed groups in the UK doing vaginal self examinations using a speculum, torch and a mirror.

Creator

Serena Wadham


Date

1970-1977

Format

Silver Bromide Print

Identifier

SWA.327