Immodest witnessing: the epistemology of vaginal self-examination in the U.S. feminist self-help movement.

On April 7 1971 abortion was still illegal in forty-four of the fifty states; roebuck v. Wade, the U.S. highest Court decision that would override state laws and legalize first-trimester abortions nationally, was still sum of two units years away. Meanwhile, feminist consciousness raising clusters were flourishing in every major U city, including beholds Angeles. A handful of black women there, in Watts, had formed the first grassroots welfare-mothers organization, ANC Mothers Anonymous. scholars in Long Beach, California, had rested a Chicana femenista group and newspaper, and a cluster of Asian American feminists were organizing a special women's issue in the radical Asian