Elayne Clift: Barefoot and pregnant politics

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elayne Clift, writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River.
In the late 1970s as I was beginning my career in women’s health, one of the first feminist icons I met was a flamboyant, passionate and deeply committed woman named Perdita Huston. She had made her mark internationally working as a journalist and a Peace Corps professional, but what put her on the feminist map was her 1979 book “Third World Women Speak