Taking Our Bodies Back: The Women's Health Movement

Overview

The "shocking" thesis of this film, that women should control their health and regain the knowledge about their bodies that had been withheld by the male-dominated medical industry, became a major focus for the women's movement of America. "Taking Our Bodies Back" explores ten critical areas of the women's health movement, from the revolutionary concept of self-help to the issue of informed surgical consent. The film documents a growing movement in the 1970s of women regaining control of their own bodies. It shows women becoming aware of their right in dealing with the medical industry. The film explores self-help, birth at home, abortion, high school women's support group, breast cancer, research, gynecological exams, drug company attitudes, hysterectomy, and health care for women of color.