“To stop women’s silent suffering”
November 16, 2008 by Phyllis Chesler
Filed under News and Opinion
My late friend Babz, aka Barbara Seaman, who died of lung cancer on Feb. 27, 2008, would have loved the glamorous setting: The National Women’s Health Network, which Barbara co-founded in 1976, had chosen lawyer Sybil Shainwald’s Fifth Avenue apartment in which to give out the first awards in Barbara’s name. I was also a co-founder, but the network was really Barbara’s baby. She grew it, her issues became the network’s issues, and she personally encouraged and mentored the next generation of feminist healthcare activists.
Barbara always said that the “women’s health movement was the healthiest — maybe the only healthy — branch of feminism.” What she meant was that the trashing, betrayals and bitter battles galore that ground down so many other second- and even third-wave feminist activists (not to mention their embattled issues) did not quite happen among the health activists…Continue reading on Salon >>
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