For Women Only!: Your Guide to Health Empowerment - Softcover

Null, Gary; Seaman, Barbara

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9781583222782: For Women Only!: Your Guide to Health Empowerment

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ISBN 10: 1583222782 ISBN 13: 9781583222782

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2001

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Both a reference work and a health guide, For Women Only! joins together hands-on advice from the country's leading health practicioners with essays, interviews, anc commentary by leading thinkers, activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists. Contributors include the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Germaine Greer, Shere Hite, Erica Jong, the National Black Women's Health Project, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, and Naomi Wolf, among many others.

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One of the nation’s most tireless health advocates, BARBARA SEAMAN (1935-2008) co-founded the National Women’s Health Network and pioneered a new style of health reporting that focused on patients’ rights. Her groundbreaking investigative book, The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings in the 1970s that led to a warning label on oral contraceptives and the drastic lowering of estrogen doses due to dangerous health effects. Dedicated to reaching a wide audience, Seaman wrote columns for Brides Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Ms., inspiring women around the world to take control of their own health. Seaman was a founding advisory board member of and key advisor to Seven Stories Press.

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Alternative health practitioner Null joins women's health advocate Seaman in a book that is really a combination of two separate works. Null's part offers alternative therapies for a variety of conditions: addiction, diabetes, menopause, etc. These treatments are complementary to rather than replacements for conventional medicine. An appendix contains brief descriptions of the therapies and a directory of practitioners. There is some new material here, but much is from Null's The Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (LJ 1/97). The strongest and most interesting section of For Women Only! is an anthology of 200 classic readings on various aspects of women's health, compiled by Seaman. Authors such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Germaine Greer, Susan Love, and Naomi Wolfe discuss activism, sexuality, body image, motherhood, and gender medicine. Brief biographies of the contributors appear at the end of the book. This work should have been published as two separate volumes. Still, it is highly recommended for the inspiring history of the women's health movement in Seaman's section. A valuable addition to women's studies, health sciences, academic, and large public library collections.
-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA
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