Research Catalog

Title

Our bodies, ourselves : a new edition for a new era / the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Description

xiv, 832 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Includes information on abortion, abuse, adolescent girls, aging, alcoholism, black women, breast cancer, breast feeding, breasts, cancer, cervix, cesarean sections, clitoris, clitoridectomy, complementary health practies, condoms, cramps, depression, diabetes, diets, women with disabilities, drugs, eating disorders, environmental and occupational health, estrogen, food, hormones, hormone therapy, hysterectomy, infertility, IUDs, labor, lesbians, masturbation, menopause, menstrual cycle, menstruation, miscarriage, Native Americans, orgasms, pelvic inflammatory disease, penis, pesticides, poverty, racism, rape, sexuality trransmitted infrctions (STIs), sexual orientation, smoking, support groups, vagina, violence, women of color, etc.

Subjects

• Women > Health and hygiene
• Women > Diseases
• Women > Psychology

Note

• "A Touchstone book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Taking care of ourselves -- 1. Body image -- 2. Eating well -- 3. Alcohol, tobacco, and other mood-altering drugs -- 4. Our bodies in motion -- 5. Complementary health practices -- 6. Emotional well-being -- 7. Environmental and occupational health -- 8. Violence and abuse -- Relationships and sexuality -- 9. Gender identity and sexual orientation -- 10. Relationships with men -- 11. Relationships with women -- 12. Sexuality -- Sexual health -- 13. Sexual anatomy, reproduction, and the menstrual cycle -- 14. Safer sex -- 15. Sexually transmitted infections -- 16. HIV and AIDS -- Reproductive choices -- 17. Considering parenting -- 18. Birth control -- 19. Unexpected pregnancy -- 20. Abortion -- Childbearing -- 21. Pregnancy -- 22. Childbirth -- 23. The first year of parenting -- 24. Childbearing loss -- 25. Infertility and assisted reproduction -- Growing older -- 26. Midlife and menopause -- 27. Our later years -- Medical problems and procedures -- 28. Unique to women -- 29. Special concerns for women -- Knowledge is power -- 30. Navigating the health care system -- 31. The politics of women's health -- 32. Organizing for change -- Glossary -- Resources.

Call Number

RA778

ISBN

• 0743256115
• 9780743256117

LCCN

2004065374

OCLC

57283896

Title

Our bodies, ourselves : a new edition for a new era / the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Imprint

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Edition

35th anniversary ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Table of contents only

Sample text

Added Author

Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR RA778 .N49 2005