Documenting Women's Health Activism in the UK from the 1970s

Copperman, Jeanette (2017). Documenting Women's Health Activism in the UK from the 1970s. Bulletin of the Social Work History Network, 4(1) pp. 12–19.

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Abstract

This article gives a brief overview of women's mental health activism in the UK since the 1970s and contains some information on the author's own history of involvement with organising to challenge sexual assault within psychiatric settings and setting up the National Women and Mental Health Network.

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• Item ORO ID
• 52937
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 2056-8029
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Internal project funded solely by the Open University	Not Set	The Open University (OU)

• Keywords
• women's activism; mental health; women's history; gender and mental health; social work history
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care > Social Work
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
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• © 2017 Social Work History Network
• Depositing User
• Jeanette Copperman