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301 A abortion: Badgley Report (1977), 101– 102; British Abortion Act (1967), 92; Canada’s 1969 law, 94–95, 97–99, 101– 102; destinations for treatment, 91–92, 96–97, 102–103; hospital TACs, 90, 95, 96,98,99,101,102,103; laws influenced by eugenics, 90, 92, 97; legalized by Supreme Court (1988), 103; personal beliefs of doctors, 95–96, 98; pregnancy guides, 42, 43; protest in Ottawa (1970), 99–100; regional variations in access, 101, 103; Roe v. Wade (US, 1973), 97; socio-economic disparities, 95, 96, 99, 100, 101, 104; Status of Women Report (1970), 101; abortion tourism, 89–108 Abortion Act (UK), 92 Abortion Caravan, 100 Abortion Information Service, 99 Abortion referral pathways, 102 ACT UP (gay activist group), 237–38, 250 advertisements: birth control pill, 65–85, 93; cervical cancer test, 110–11, 121, 122; food for new mothers, 35–36; ideal feminine bodies, 193 aerobics for large women, xiv, 193–214; books, magazines, videos, 202, 203; feminist critique of aerobics, 194–96, 208; health and popular culture, 202–208; ideal bodies vs. health, 193, 194–96; individualism and collective action, 208–10; Large as Life group (see Large as Life [LaL]); aims and gains, 196, 198, 201–205, 207–10; women and sport, 195, 196 AIDS: activist responses, 248, 249–50; care at home, 252–54; community of suffering, 247–49; compassion hindered by fear, 242–46; culture wars in Reagan years, 238–39, 249; dying and reconciliation, 251–52; family in gay culture, 239–40; GRID, 237; kinship strategy, 239, 252–53; media reports, 241, 244, 247; memoirs, 241–42, 244–45, 246–49, 252, 253; moral perceptions, 238, 239, 240–41, 250; parents and sons, 241–47; photographs, 246, 248–49, 252; social shunning, 242–44, 247, 249; symptoms of AIDS, 237, 245; uncertainty of doctors, 237–38, 239, 243–44, 245, 249; victims as family members, 237–54 Akrich, Madeline, 48 Albutt, Arthur, 8, 9, 11, 12–14, 15–16 alcohol, 54, 83, 155–56, 158–60, 165–67, 169; Jamie Lee Curtis and, 225, 232 alcohol in pregnancy, 10, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 alcoholism, xiii, xv Index Index 302 almshouse, 153. See also Philadelphia Alms House Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 118 American Cancer Society (ACS), 111, 113, 114, 115–19, 129, 133 American Medical Association (AMA), 30, 32, 37 American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC), 111, 114, 116, 119 anatomical models: gender norms, 175, 177–82, 185, 187, 189–90; hidden from public view, 184–87; historical artifacts, 182; ideal feminine bodies, 179–80, 182, 189–90; medical education, 182, 183, 184–86, 189; obstetrics, 180–81, 185, 188, 190; pathology, 184, 185, 186, 188; public display, 175, 177–82, 183, 187–90; social values, 178–79, 186–87; viewers’ reactions, 178, 179, 188, 189–90 Anti-Climax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, 66 Apple, Rima, 30 Arthur, T.S., 153 artisans in Philadelphia, 154, 155, 157, 159, 165, 169 Australia, childbirth advice in, 3–21 Ayre, Ernest, 130–31, 133 B Badgley Report, 101–103 Baker, Jean, 247–48, 249, 253–54 Balsamo, Anne, 217 Barbo, Beverly, 241–42 Bartky, Sandra, 216, 233 Bate, Dr. John, 25, 26 Beaney, James George, 5–6 beauty, viii, ix, x, 31, 38, 193, 194, 196, 203, 207–209, 216, 220, 227; contests, 209; Dove’s“Campaign for Real Beauty,”232 beauty myth, 216, 226 Bell, Suzanne, 199, 201, 204, 205–207; fashion savvy of, 207 billboard of caring mother, 253 Birth Control Handbook (1968), 83, 85, 94, 95, 203 birth control pill: accessibility, 68–69, 70, 78, 94; advertisements, 65–68, 70–77, 79–81, 83–85, 93; family planning, 76, 85; medical concerns, 68–73, 82– 83; medical education, 78; menstrual management, 67–69; naturalness emphasized , 72–73, 83; packaging, 71–72; physician control, 66, 68–70, 78, 81, 82, 85; population control, 73, 74; preventative medicine, 69; users, 74–76, 79–81, 83–85, 93 blackface minstrelsy, 165, 168, 171n11 Blackwell, Marie, 244–45 Body Worlds II, 187–88, 189 The Bolster, 205, 206, 207, 210 books: birth control, 83, 85, 203; eating in pregnancy, 23, 25–27, 31, 33, 37–43; exercise for large women, 202; feminist critique of aerobics, 193, 194; Our Bodies, Ourselves, 39, 40, 203 Bourne, Dr. Aleck, 92 breast self-examination, 144 Britain as abortion hot spot, 92 Butler, Judith, 217 butter, 31, 32 Bytsura, Bill, 246, 247 C caesarean section, 14 caffeine, 23, 24...
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