Research Catalog

Title

Our bodies, ourselves : a book by and for women

Publication

• New York : Simon and Schuster, [1976]
• ©1976

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Description

383 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.

Subject

• Women > United States
• Women > Psychology
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Women > Diseases
• Gynecology
• Self-perception
• Women
• Gynecology
• Self Concept
• Women
• Women's Health
• Sexual Behavior
• Women > psychology
• Femmes > États-Unis
• Femmes > Psychologie
• Femmes > Santé et hygiène
• Gynécologie
• Perception de soi
• Femmes
• Femmes > Maladies
• women (female humans)
• 71.31 sexes and their interrelations
• 44.29 personal hygiene: other
• Women > Diseases
• Self-perception
• Women Health and hygiene
• Women Psychology
• Frau
• Vrouwen
• Gezondheid
• Sex (Act)
• Sexual practices
• Sexuality
• United States
• Women United States

Genre/Form

• Autographs (Provenance)
• Popular works.
• Popular works

Note

• "A Touchstone book"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source (note)

• Suzanne Levin;

Provenance (note)

• Signed by Suzanne Levin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Our changing sense of self / Joan Sheingold Ditzion -- The anatomy and physiology of sexuality and reproduction / Esther R. Rome, with help from Jill Wolhandler and Abby Schwarz -- Sexuality / Nancy Press Hawley, Elizabeth A. McGee and Wendy Coppedge Sanford -- Living with ourselves and others: our sexual relationships / Paula Brown Doress and Nancy Press Hawley with help from Joan Sheingold Ditzion and Judy Norsigian -- In Amerika they call us dykes / A Boston Gay Collective -- Taking care of ourselves. I. Nutrition / Judy Norsigian; Women in motion / Janet Jones and Carol McEldowney; II. Glossary/examinations and tests / Judy Norsigian and Norma Meras Swenson -- III. Common medical and health problems: traditional and alternative treatments / Judy Norsigian and Norma Meras Swenson -- Rape / Judy Norsigian, with help from Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center -- Self-defense / Janet Jones and Carol McEldowney-- Venereal disease / Esther R. Rome -- Birth Control / Wendy Coppedge Sanford and Barbara Bridgman Perkins -- Abortion / Wendy Coppedge Sanford, with help from Elizabeth McCord and Elizabeth A. McGee -- Considering parenthood / Joan Sheingold Ditzion, with help from Ruth Davidson Bell, Wilma Vilunya Diskin, Paula Brown Doress [and others] -- Childbearing unit. Introduction to chapters 13-15 / Jane Kates Pincus, Robbie Pfeufer -- Pregnancy / Jane Kates Pincus, with help from Ruth Davidson Bell and Norma Meras Swenson -- Preparation for childbirth / Ruth Davidson Bell, with help from Jane Kates Pincus, Norma Meras Swenson, Wendy Coppedge Sanford [and others] -- Postpartum: after the baby is born / Wilma Vilunya Diskin and Paula Brown Doress, with help from Ruth Davidson Bell and Norma Meras Swenson -- Some exceptions to the normal childbearing experience / Jane Kates Pincus and Barbara Eck Menning, with help from Susan Siroty and Ellen Bresnick-- Menopause / Pamela Chernoff Berger and Judy Norsigian, with help from Marcia Kasabian and Wendy Coppedge Sanford -- Women and health care. The American health care system / Mary Rollston Stern and Norma Meras Swenson -- Choosing and using health and medical care / Norma Meras Swenson, with help from Jane Kates Pincus and Mary Rollston Stern -- Coping, organizing and developing alternatives / Norma Meras Swenson, with help from Judy Norsigian and Jane Kates Pincus.

ISBN

• 0671221450
• 9780671221454
• 0671221469 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780671221461 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

75025802

OCLC

• ocm02098202
• 2098202
• SCSB-2089275

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library