Belita Cowan

Belita Cowan was a women's health activist during the 1960s and 1970s. She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She worked part-time at the University Hospital while finishing her master's degree in English. Cowan started her research as a result of how horrified she was by the false advertising of the morning after pill.[1][2] She was invited to present her research findings at the Senate hearing on DES in 1974. This made her the first women's health activist to ever testify as an expert witness.

  1. ^ "The National Women's Health Network's Founders". NWHN. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  2. ^ The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Nancy Tuana, Hypatia, Vol. 21, No. 3, Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance (Summer, 2006), pp. 1-19