Jillian M. Hinderliter

Jillian M. Hinderliter is a historian of the twentieth-century United States, modern Jewish history, and women’s health. She defended her dissertation “Patients’ Rights, Patients’ Politics: Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women’s Health Movement, 1969-1990,” at the University of South Carolina in May 2021. Her research on Jewish women and feminist health activism has been published in the journal American Jewish History and she has also written on her work in Jewish Women Amplified and Studying the South, the blog of the Southern Studies Program at College of Charleston.

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Health Activism, American Feminist

American women have been the “perennial health care reformers.” Women’s health activism has often coincided with other social reform movements. Since the late 1960s, Jewish women have helped create and sustain the women’s health movement through decades of substantial social, political, medical, and technological change.

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