ABSTRACT
In 1996, R. Parrot and C. M. Condit edited Evaluating Women’s Health Messages: A Resource Book. Perhaps the most comprehensive collection on women’s health discourse, the volume contains 28 chapters on reproductive health and what has been referred to as “bikini-medicine”: “concentrating on the breasts and the reproductive organs, while essentially ignoring the rest of the woman”. Most women in the US die from heart disease, lung cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. T. Dubriwny writes, “While public discourse about women’s health issues points to the success of the women’s health movement, the post-feminist nature of that discourse suggests the need to revisit what feminist health activism can look like —and accomplish —in the twenty-first century”. In the US, people will not die from lack of access to birth control pills. The re-examination of Roe v. Wade is, however, only one constituent part of the larger Trump administration that could have serious effects on women’s health.
