Consciousness About Ourselves as Women: The Demand for Gynecologist Services on Massachusetts Campuses

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This paper examines how female students at both co-ed and all women’s colleges in Massachusetts advocated for better reproductive health services and information on their campuses in the lead-up to the Supreme Court decisions of Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972 and Roe v. Wade in 1973. By focusing on the voices of college women through oral histories and their writing, I cast a new lens on the fascinating relationship between women’s liberation and student activism and provide a new perspective that scholars and reproductive rights activists can use in our currently fraught times.

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