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Our bodies, ourselves : a new edition for a new era

Author: Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 35th anniversary edView all editions and formats
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 practices, condoms, cramps, depression, diabetes, diets, women with disabilities, drugs, eating disorders, environmental and occupational health, estrogen, food, hormones, hormone therapy, hysterectomy,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Popular Works
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
ISBN: 0743256115 9780743256117
OCLC Number: 57283896
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
Description: xiv, 832 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Responsibility: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
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Includes information on abortion, abuse, adolescent girls, aging, alcoholism, black women, breast cancer, breast feeding, breasts, cancer, cervix, cesarean sections, clitoris, clitoridectomy, complementary health practices, 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 transmitted infections (STIs), sexual orientation, smoking, support groups, vagina, violence, women of color, etc.

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