Colorado Springs Women's Health
Formation: ca. 1972
Founders: Vicki Ziegler, Liz Campbell
Type: Health
Address: 409 E Fontanero St. Colorado Springs, CO. 80907
Purpose: To teach other women about their bodies and their health through the "well-woman" context.
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History
The organization started as a consciousness-raising women's liberation group.
We encourage women to take control of their bodies to whatever extent they are able--to visit doctors with knowledge and understanding, to conquer the body hang-ups and hatred which have been socialized into us, and then to share these experiences with other women. In this way we hope to begin to erase the medical-man mystique that has forced us into a passive acceptance of our "fates" as know-nothing, do-nothing females.
In 1973, the organization released a book called "Circle One: A Self-Health Handbook" which included articles about the self-health movement's history, patient advocacy, menses extraction, various vaginal infections and their treatments, and a "large enthusiastic section of several articles on masturbation."
Members of the group also formed a teaching collective with an Anthropology professor at Colorado College, one of the few women professors at the college at the time, to develop a women's studies course for the Fall of 1973. [1]
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Ziegler, Vicki. “Know Yourself Be Well.” Big Mama Rag 1, no. 5 (1973): 3. Archives of Sexuality and Gender. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/LLPMSK013889579/AHSI?sid=bookmark-AHSI&pg=4&xid=2ada7b04. ↩︎