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	• Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian Touchstone, 2005 - 848 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent resource.

Provides a comprehensive, straight-forward, open-minded approach to all issues of women. Purchased to update my former copy, which I used as a resource when I taught high school students.

Incredibly useful

I love this book and I sent it out to all my family and friends as holiday gifts this year. I love that it shows many taboo issues as normal, because they are.

The only thing that upset me was that they never explicitly suggested that the reader use at least two methods of birth control. They almost implied that if your one method didn't work, you could just get an abortion. I felt that they should have been adamant about the two-or-more method particularly after reading how often a method would fail in every one hundred uses.

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This book should be in every woman's home

I just got this book and wished I'd had it in my teens, twenties, thirties, but thankfully now in my 40's I do. I bought two copies used. The 1984 edition and the 1998 edition. Now after reading the reviews for the 2005 edition I am going to get that new. The 2005 edition is the 8th edition and in 35 years has never gone out of print.

Truly a wealth of information and a treasure to have found. This is the kind of book you can flip thorough and start reading on any page and find something of interest. They even have their own internet site containing information about this book and related books.

The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs (including in the 1984 & 1998 editions an iconic one by Tee A. Corinne of a disabled person making love in a wheel chair).

The subjects cover every issue that a woman can encounter -

Taking Care of Ourselves
Relationships and Sexuality
Sexual Health
Reproductive Choices
Child-Bearing
Growing Older
Medical Problems and Procedures
Knowledge is Power

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
9: Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
10: Relationships with Men
11: Relationships with Women
12: Sexuality
13: Sexual Anatomy, Reproduction, and the Menstrual Cycle
14: Safer Sex
15: Sexually Transmitted Infections
16: HIV and AIDS
17: Considering Parenting
18: Birth Control
19: Unexpected Pregnancy
20: Abortion
21: Pregnancy
22: Childbirth
23: The First Year of Parenting
24: Child-Bearing Loss
25: Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
26: Midlife and Menopause
27: Our Later Years
28: Unique to Women
29: Special Concerns for Women
30: Navigating the Health Care System
31: The Politics of Women's Health
32: Organizing for Change

From the publisher's website: 2005 - Thirty-five years after Women and Their Bodies revolutionized women's health, a substantially revised Our Bodies, Ourselves is published for a new generation of women.

THE BOOK'S NEW LOOK
Almost all new photographs
More compact size that makes it easier to carry and read
Fresh, modern design
A new, reader-friendly layout with lots of sidebars and bulleted points

NEW CHAPTERS
Navigating the Health Care System
Safer Sex
Considering Parenting
Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

HOT TOPICS
The debate over "female sexual dysfunction"
Direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies
Cosmetic surgery and breast implants
Fad diets
Microbicides, which stop sexually transmitted infections
The menstrual suppression debate
Breastfeeding
Anti-depressants

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Got to have it!

I just bought this this book to send to my daughter who is a freshman in college. My mom bought an early edition for me when I went to college, and I bought an inbetween edition as a 30 year old. This is an essential reference for women of all ages. I love that it has informed intelligent women about their bodies since its first publication.

We love it!

As sex coaches we find this feminist treatise on women's bodies and sexuality a must for any woman who wants to truly know and love her body. This encyclopedia-like book covers everything from puberty to childbirth, from sexual trauma to sexual healing. We love it!

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