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Title: Our Bodies, Ourselves : A Book by and for Women: 25th Anniversary by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Boston Womens Health Collective ISBN: 0-7857-8072-6 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.05 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Women are people? Huh?
Comment: The authors write as if women are people, as if women are not all the same but in fact have a wide range of biological and behavioral variability, as if each woman is unique and, not only that, is entitled to living as she very well pleases. It's a disgrace. They show women naked who don't look like fashion models but could be just you or me. They write as if it's a good idea for women to be healthy in mind as well as in body. As if this wasn't enough, they go on to suggest that the quality of health care has anything to do with the medical establishment, that women should actually be informed correctly of the risks of medical procedures and alternatives available and, lo and behold, make the choice themselves, that the medical establishment is often not a wonderful haven for women who are poor or outside the cultural mainstream, as in for example when they are members of minority groups, that a woman's sex life and relationships may be influenced by power structures in the society she lives in, and other such far-fetched stuff. In reality, we all know that all women have 28-day periods, get menopausal at 48, are all heterossexual, are all white (most other books agree at least on this one point), are all fairly pretty, all get married, all want children, and that health has nothing to do with anything else in the world out there. No wonder one reader complained that this book, supposed to be about health, is also political. A disgrace indeed.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE one book I would recommend to my colleagues and clients
Comment: If I could only recommend one book on women's health to my colleagues and clients, this would be it. Unlike other women's health books, this one recognizes that health and well-being is more than simply the presence or absence of illness or physical conditions. It's time that women learn about their bodies and health in the context of their lives and not just out of a medical textbook. I applaud the authors for their appreciation of women's diversity, both in bodies and lifestyles, and the personal uniqueness that each of us can learn to cherish. Every woman should have this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too political: sexism, lesbianism-what about health issues?
Comment: The previous edition of this book came highly recommended to me as highly informative about the many health issues facing women - the physical problems/changes women of all ages might expect to face, their symptoms and treatments. Instead, social and political essays on such topics as sexism, harassment in the workplace, lesbianism, the politics of women's health and medical care, racism and the environment, etc. have crowded out many of the subjects and the information that I, and probably most women, are seeking in a book purportedly about women's health. While political and social matters like those raised in the book are certainly valid and of interest to many, they don't belong in a book that should be dealing with women's health issues. The title itself is very misleading, and I was extremely disappointed in the book. Because of the inadequate coverage of facts and information in this edition, I am searching for another book that will provide the answers to the! many questions that were not answered by Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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Title: Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century by Boston Women's Health Book Collective ISBN: 0684842319 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition : A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships by Ruth Bell ISBN: 081292990X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: NEW OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER : REVISED AND UPDATED by Diana Siegal ISBN: 0671872974 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 26 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup ISBN: 0553382098 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Harvard Guide to Women's Health (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Karen J. Carlson, Stephanie A. Eisenstat, Terra Diane Ziporyn ISBN: 0674367693 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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