Rebecca Chalker Explained

Rebecca Chalker (born 1943) is a health writer and women's rights activist who is the author of several books on women's health issues.[1]

Early life and education

Chalker completed a BA in 1966 and an MA in 1975 from Florida State University, Tallahassee. She served in the Peace Corps from 1966 to 1967 as a teacher in Iran at the Tehran School of Social Work.

Chalker was a vocal critic of United States policy towards Iran, and in 1979 she was arrested along with other activists for hanging a "U.S. Imperialism Get Your Bloody Hands Off Iran" banner on the Washington Monument.[2] She traveled to Tehran as a member of the "Send the Shah Back—Hands Off Iran Delegation" in support of the Iranian Revolution and the occupation of the United States embassy in Iran.[3] [4] After her return to the United States, she and Eileen Schnitger (a fellow member of the Feminist Women's Health Center) disrupted the Women's National Powerlifting Championships while wearing "Send the Shah Back" t-shirts.[5]

Writing career

Chalker's books include The Complete Cervical Cap Guide,[6] Overcoming Bladder Disorders, and A Women's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486.[7] She has also written The Clitoral Truth, about genital anatomy and ways to enhance sexual responses.[8] [9]

In 1993, Le Anne Schreiber writes in The New York Times about A Woman's Book of Choices, that "there is one incontrovertible fact of abortion in America: for more than a century, American women's access to safe abortions has been controlled by doctors and legislators. In defiance of that pattern, Rebecca Chalker, an abortion counselor and the author of a number of popular medical books, and Carol Downer, a lawyer and the executive director of the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, have issued a declaration of independence."

Chalker is a professor at Pace University in New York City and continues to lecture on women's health and sexuality issues.[10]

Works

Books

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cott . Nancy F. . Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 . September 22, 2006 . University of Illinois Press . 9780252097478 . 79 .
  2. News: Iran to Form Tribunal To Air 'U.S. Crimes' . The Washington Post . Stuart . Auerbach . 9 December 1979 . 19 April 2021.
  3. News: American Delegation in Iran Blasts U.S. Gov't. . Revolutionary Worker . 1 . 32 . 14 December 1979 . 1, 6 . 19 April 2021.
  4. News: Iran Demonstration Riots 1979 U.S. Embassy Takeover . 15 December 1979 . 19 April 2021 . AP Images . AP Photo/Sayad.
  5. News: Anti-Shah T-Shirts Get Women Disqualified . 24–25 . The Militant . 44 . 5 . 15 February 1980 . 19 April 2021.
  6. News: Kolata . Gina . As New Tactic, Do-It-Yourself Abortions Taught . 18 April 2021 . The New York Times . October 23, 1989.
  7. News: Schreiber . Le Anne . What Kind of Abortions Do We Want? . 18 April 2021 . The New York Times . January 17, 1993.
  8. News: Hills . Rachel . 6 things that would do more for women's sex drive than 'female Viagra' . 18 April 2021 . The Washington Post . December 15, 2015.
  9. Cassell . Carol . The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips. By Rebecca Chalker. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000. 256 pp., illustrations, references, resources, glossary, index. Paperback, ISBN 1-58322-059-3, $19.95. . Journal of Sex Education and Therapy . 2001 . 26 . 4 . 371–373 . 10.1080/01614576.2001.11074452 . 141489631 . 18 April 2021.
  10. News: Sexual healing: The rise and fall and rise of women's libido . The Village Voice . 19 April 2021 . 3 February 2004 . Elizabeth . Zimmer.

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