Australian Left Review
Article Title
The Body in Question
Abstract
In June 1990 the ACT Minister for Health announced that joint Commonwealth/Territory funding had been granted to establish a community-based women's health centre in Canberra. The very next month, Dr Alex Proudfoot (an adviser in the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services) filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging that special women's health services are discriminatory under the Sex Discrimination Act because men cannot access them; there are no comparable services for men; men's health is worse than women's, and the services address problems that are not unique to women.
This paper has been withdrawn.