Northern Woman Journal, Vol 6 No 1

Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1980)
Title: Northern Woman Journal: Health

Topics include:
Feminist counselling
Women need nurturing too
Letters to the editor
Feminist Newspaper Broadside
Feminist Newspaper Women Healthsharing
Herstory: Women in healthcare/healing
Continuing deportation of immigrant women
Cancer experiment on Candian women
Anti-feminist backlash
Synthetic estrogen (DES)
Breast cancer treatments
Breast self-examinations (diagrams incl.)
Male domination of medical profession
Synthetic hormone effects
Childbirth
Induced labour
Politics of medicine
Infant mortality rate
Kramer v. Kramer (article reprinted from Broadside)
CARAL’s philosophy on childbirth (by choice)
Birth Control
Abortion alternatives
Forceps: a male invention
Midwifery
Child-parent separation in hospital post-birth
Politics of control during childbirth
Poetry
Vaginal sponges
Feminist health book list
Self-healing classes @ Northern Women’s Centre

Authors/contributors:
Gert Beadle
Joan E. Powell (letter to the editor)
Joyce Thierry (letter to the editor)
Kathy Gunderson (letter to the editor, Kelowna BC)
Joan Baril
Lousie Nichols
Estelle Howard
Susan G. Cole (article reprinted from Broadside)
Donna Phoenix
Rosalyn Taylor Perrett
Viola Goderre
Jill A. Higgins
Karin Banerd
Joyce Tierry

Northern Woman Journal Collective

1980-01

Published on this site with permission.

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