"By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women
are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy
resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are
nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase.
Women's emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and
participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine,
and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on
self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women's lives and
bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot
control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women
are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first
time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition."--from the Introduction