Women and Health Care

• Published in: Journal of women's history 2022-01, Vol.34 (1), p.1-4
• Main Authors: Davis, Jennifer J, Holguín, Sandie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Black people; Civil rights; Community health services; Domestic violence; Education; Employment; Employment policies; Families & family life; Female roles; Gender; Health care industry; Health facilities; Health services; Imprisonment; Labor law; Leadership; Medical personnel; Medicine; Mental disorders; Mental health; Money; Nursing; Occupational health; Professional associations; Professionals; Public health; Rape; Rural communities; Shelters; Smallpox; Training; Vaccines; Women; Womens health; Working class; Working women
• ISSN: 1042-7961; 1527-2036; 1527-2036
• DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2022.0006

[...]these authors recover women’s roles as health care providers in the past, providing evidence that contests the masculinist narrative central to so many medical professional organizations. In “‘They Had the Brains but They Didn’t Have the Expertise’: Black Working-Class Women and the Nurse Training Program at the Taborian Hospital, 1940s–1960s,” Sims considers the considerable material and intellectual benefits that the hospital’s Nurse Training Program afforded, which recruited Black working-class women from rural communities surrounding Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Wiesner highlights that the leadership of the NBWHP never supported VAWA which directed substantial monies to police departments and state prosecutors rather than to women’s shelters or community health centers. [...]this article reaches beyond occupational health to consider Stellman’s role in the larger women’s health movement of the 1970s and 1980s, acknowledging her leadership in challenging gender biases rooted in “medical science, labor law, and work.”