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- Abortion Counseling:
A Clinician’s Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency by
Rachel Needle, PsyD and Lenore Walker, EdD. This unique resource for psychotherapists and counselors takes a look at the political and psychological possibilities and necessity for abortion counselingThis unique resource for psychotherapists and counselors takes a look at the political and psychological possibilities and necessity for abortion counseling. [buy
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- A Difficult Decision: A Compassionate Book About
Abortion by Joy Gardner. Published by The Crossing Press.
Strikes a nice balance between straightforward medical info
and emotional and spiritual concerns. The perspective is
holistic and pro-woman. [buy
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- A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington. 1992.
This book outlines the whole story of Roe v Wade, the Supreme
Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide in 1973.
Sarah Weddington is the attorney who brought the case on
behalf of Jane Roe in Texas. Sarah, who grew up in a small
Texas town, the daughter of a minister, argued this case
at age 26. A Question of Choice tells the behind the scenes
story about this famous case. [buy
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- A
Woman's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction,
RU-496. 1992. Becky Chalker and Carol Downer.
Written before election day in 1992, this book is the only
place where Menstrual Extraction is explained in detail,
complete with a list of components for the easy-to-make
Del-M device. Seven
Stories Press.
- Abortion a Positive Decision by Patricia Lunneborg.
1992. This book documents numerous positive results
women have experienced based upon their decision in favor
of abortion. Lunneborg finds that abortion is moral, life-enhancing,
supportive to families, and beneficial to the lives of millions
of women. [buy
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- Abortion and a Woman's Choice by Rosalind
Petchesky. [buy
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- Abortion and Common Sense by Ruth Dixon-Mueller PhD and Paul K.B. Dagg MD. (2002)
- Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
by Kristin Luker. 1984. U of Cal Press. Many of
her socio-economic observations are true today as they were
in 1984. [buy
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- Abortion at Work: Feminist Practice and Ideology
in a Feminist Clinic by Wendy Simons. Rutgers University
Press, 1996. Wendy Simons looks inside a feminist abortion
clinic in Atlanta and describing how feminist politics and
activism intersect with hands on abortion care. [buy
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- The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public
Issue by Miriam Claire. 1995. Weaving together international
and multi-denominational views, the author creates a path
of learning, compassion and understanding to help a persona
define how they feel about abortion. [buy
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- Abortion In Law, History and Religion,
published by the Childbirth by Choice Trust, describes the
status of abortion in most countries of the world, and explains
every major religion's view of abortion. Very thorough.
updated 1995. [buy
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- Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross-Cultural
Perspective by Marianne Githens and Dorothy McBride
Stetson, eds. 1996. Routledge Publishers, NY NY.
Is what it says it is. [buy
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- The Abortion Resource Handbook by K.
Kaufman. 1997. Simon and Schuster. A valuable resource
to women throughout the U.S. In paperback, at $11, affordable!
A very readable review of everything women need to know
about informed consent and parental consent laws (including
a listing of state laws), taking care of oneself during
an unwanted pregnancy, finding clinics and avoiding fake
clinics, and emergency birth control, and medical abortion.
Honest, reliable information. NEW.
More about the
book.
- Abortion: Understanding Differences edited
by the Drs Dan and Sidney Callahan, directors of the Hastings
Institute. A series of ten essays by both sides with each
essay critiqued by someone of the other side. [buy
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- The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law by
Rickie Sollinger. A fascinating history of the life
and times of a woman braving the legal system to provide
desperately needed health care for women. [buy
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- The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality, and the Hard
Choices Women Make by Leslie Cannon. 2000.
Interviews with Australian women about their feelings of
connection to the fetus they abortion and the difference
between their feelings and the political arguments they
hear in the world. [buy
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- Ambivalence of Abortion
by Linda Bird Franke, New York: Random House, 1977.
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- The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious
Right by Dallas Blanchard. Professor Blanchard teaches
in Pensacola, FL, a part of the country that has seen an
enormous rise in anti-abortion violence including the shooting
murders of Dr. David Gunn, Dr. John Bayard Britton and clinic
escort James Barrett. His book examines the anti-abortion
movement from 1973 to 1993. [buy
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- The Anti-Abortion Movement: References and Resources
by Dallas A. Blanchard. NY: GK Hall Reference, 1996.
Everything you ever wanted to know about who's who and what
they're up to. [buy
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- At the
Crossroads
by Frankie Schelly. FireSign Exclusives, 2001. Four
contemporary nuns facing feminist issues abortion, forbidden
romance, the right to die, and donating eggs to an infertile
couple. The main character Vivian had a secret teenage abortion
before entering the convent. Now a young woman in the same
predicament requests her help. Order
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- Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice
Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States,
by Rickie Solinger. 2001. Hill & Wang. In the years
leading up to the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973,
Solinger notes, many advocates of abortion used the term
"rights" to define their political mission. But as the 1970s
wore on, a new discourse took root in the reproductive rights
movement - a discourse in which "choice" supplanted "rights."
Solinger endeavors to show how that shift occurred, and
why it was a disastrous mistake. [buy
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- Billions
and Billions by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan,
his wife. 1997. Devotes
chapter (XV) to abortion which was published first
in Parade magazine as 'The Question of Abortion: A Search
for Answers,' April 22, 1990. [buy
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- Birth or Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political
World by Kate Maloy and Maggie Patterson. Published
by Plenum, 1992. It is a compilation and analysis of
stories of 100 women and couples, from the 1930s to the
late 1980s, who had to decide about unplanned or medically
complicated pregnancies. The authors discovered that the
language of politics bore almost no relation to the terms
people used about private experience. Nearly everyone faced
with a decision about a pregnancy considered her options
in the same terms, regardless of the outcome. Women asked
the same questions in order to make their decisions, and
the outcome depended on their answers to those questions.
The questions all had to do with resources---physical, financial,
emotional, psychological---and with relationships. How would
a pregnancy affect the women's existing resources and relationships?
This book is profoundly pro-choice, but not for the usual,
politically expressed reasons. It's ultimate message is
that women are in fact more united than political factions
(they rarely judge other women's decisions, even when different
from their own). Connected to this is the idea that for
women to have full choice, they must be as free to go ahead
with a pregnancy as to end it. [buy
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- Bitter Fruit.
Rita Townsend, Alameda: Hunter House, 1991. [buy
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- Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice
to Consent by Eileen McDonagh.
1997. Oxford University Press. Introduces a new dialogue,
and a new vocabulary that moves beyond pro-life and pro-choice
to abortion rights framed as pro-consent. [buy
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- The W Effect - Bush's War on Women edited
by Laura Flanders. 2004. The Feminist Press. 212-817-7920.
How women are affected by the policymaking of the Bush Administration.
- Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological
and Philosophical Perspective by Lawrence T. Kaplan
and Rosemarie Tong. MIT Press, 1996. Deals with technical
and philosophical aspects of such topics as in vitro fertilization.
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- Divided Passions: Public Opinions on Abortion
and the Death Penalty by Kimberly J. Cook. 1998.
Based on in-depth interviews interwoven with statistics.
Probes the cultural forces underlying the apparent paradox
of opposition to abortion and support for the death penalty.
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- Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion
Before and After Roe v Wade by Carol Joffee. Beacon
Press, 1995. Joffee traces the ways mainstream medicine
has marginalized abortion resulting in a loss of access
to abortion services for the public. Joffee interviews 45
physicians who provide abortions to learn what motivates
them. Doctors of Conscience offers a window on the courage
of those doctors who work today to insure safe abortions
despite very real threats to their professional standing,
and personal safety. [buy
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- Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy
and Democracy by Frederick Clarkson. Published by Common
Courage Press, 1997. Generally about the politics
and strategy of the Christian Right. One chapter titled
"Bombings, Assassinations, and Theocratic Revolution"
is mostly about anti-choice violence. There are also chapters
devoted to the surprisingly central role of the Unification
Church of Sun Myung Moon in American politics, and the emerging
and wildly significant Christian men's organization, the
Promise Keepers. In sum, this is a review of the effort
to establish a theocracy in the U.S. Clarkson considers
this effort in a context of ongoing struggle throughout
the history of our country. The book opens with the assassination
of Dr. John Britton, and includes reproductive rights as
a key issue within the larger struggle. [buy
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- Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's
Words by Eve Kushner. Haworth Press. 1997. Focuses
on women's post-abortion feelings and experiences. Offers
women of wide range of race/ethnic, religious, age, number
of abortions backgrounds, a place to turn for support and
understanding. The most important debate on abortion is
not taking place on television. It takes place every day
in the hearts and minds of women facing unintended pregnancy.
Shows the healing and empowerment that can come from women
facing their experience, understanding it and sharing it
with others. [buy
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- Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and
Abortion in the West by John M. Riddle. 1997. Harvard
University Press, Cambridge. A highly informative
presentation of the history of the use of plant products,
such as ergot, as abortion agents. For millennia, midwives
administered herbal medicines to pregnant women and pregnant
women medicated themselves with substances thought to be
useful as abortion agents. [buy
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- The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion
Controversy by Harold J. Morowitz and James S. Trefil.
1992. Explains what is known about
embryonic and fetal development, at a level accessible to
non-experts. They ask the question "when is human-ness
attained" - demystifying the magical "life begins
at conception," but very rationally discussing what
the stages of development really are (one chapter debunks
the Silent Scream). Thoughtfully pro-choice says an instructor
who uses it in college-level classes. [buy
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- From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom, Transforming
a Movement edited by Marlene Gerber Fried. This
anthology argues for an expansion of the single-issue abortion-rights
movement into multi-cultural feminist movement. [buy
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- Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
by Anne Roiphe. 1997. What Roiphe has to say
about abortion, and what she has to say about having and
raising children, are too important to be missed. [buy
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- The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional
Recovery After an Abortion by Candace DePuy and Dana
Dovitch. 1997. Simon & Schuster. Millions of
women experience normal and natural feelings after an abortion
- like after a miscarriage, adoption, with menopause or
infertility. These are not "post abortion syndrome."
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- If Men Got Pregnant, Abortion
Would be a Sacrament!
by Tesseract
Publications.
- The Imaginary Domain by Drucilla Cornell
- Advances the argument that bodily integrity is
one of the 3 foundations for the formation of personhood;
that the fetus is part of the woman's body, not a separate
entity. Makes stark the male imagining of woman's body as
a container and abnegation of the person herself. Cornell
examines feminist theory from the point of view of abortion
and pornography. [buy
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- Legal but Out of Reach by the National Network
of Abortion Funds. 1995. Stories about real women's
search for abortion services and funds to pay for them.
[Also in Spanish.] Available here
for $5.
- Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism
in Japan by William LaFleur. Princeton University
Press, 1992. [buy
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- Men and Abortion by Arthur
Shostak, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984. [buy
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- Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives
across Countries and Cultures. Edited by Rosalind Petchesky
and Karen Judd. Published by Zed Books (New York
and London). paperback. Ros Petchesky is also the author
of the feminist classic on abortion, Abortion and Women's
Choice. This book reports on an extraordinary cross-national
research team that studied sexuality, abortion, bc, and
related issues in seven countries: Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia,
Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and the US. Excellent intro
and ending chapter that gives these cross-national comparisons
some context ... highly recommended for those who want to
compare our struggles in the US for reproductive freedom
with the situation in developing world. [buy
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- The New Civil War: The Psychology, Culture, and
Politics of Abortion. Edited by Linda J. Beckman, PhD
and S. Marie Harvey. 1998. Published by American Psychological
Association. Examines the sociopolitical, cultural, and psychological
contexts of abortion. [buy
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- Our
Bodies, Our Selves (NEW - for the New Century)
by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
- Our Heartbreaking Choices by Christie Brooks - book and website devoted to 46 women telling their personal stories of ending wanted pregnancies mid-way due to medical complications.
- Our Right to Choose by Beverly Harrison.[buy
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- Peace After Abortion by Ava Torre-Bueno.
Pimpernel Press, San Diego, CA, 1996. A well written,
practical and compassionate book, designed to help women
who are troubled after an abortion, to deal with their feelings.
It will also be an invaluable aid to health care professionals
who may be working with these women, and to anyone interested
in a self-help approach to issues of guilt, depression,
and shame. Ava Torre-Bueno, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in
private practice. Peace After Abortion (the
website).
- The Politics of Pregnancy edited by Janna C.
Merrick and Robert H. Blank. 1993. This book is the
result of a symposium. It illustrates the extreme complexity
of ethical and public policy dilemmas in the maternal-fetal
relationship in an era of changing technology. [buy
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- Pregnant? Need
Help? Pregnancy Options Workbook is designed
for women who are unsure, or troubled, or can't decide.
It covers all three choices - parenting, abortion, and adoption
even-handedly, and focuses on emotional tools to get clear
about how she feels and what her support network is. Contact
Peg J. (607) 785-3429 $3 postage paid in advance.
Send to Ferre Institute, 124 Front St., Binghamton, NY 13905.
Fax (607) 724-8290.
- A Private Matter: RU-486 and the Abortion
Crisis by Lawrence Lader of Abortion Rights
Mobilization. Discusses making getting RU-486 available
in the USA.[buy
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- Religious Violence and Abortion
by Dallas Blanchard and Prewitt.[buy
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- The Republican War Against Women by Tanya Melich.
Bantam, 1996. A life-long Republican and feminist, Tanya
describes what the US Republican Party really thinks of
women and how it uses women candidates. [buy
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- The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist
Abortion Service. by Laura Kaplan. Pantheon Books, 1996.
Jane was established in the 1960's before abortion was legalized.
In the earliest years, women connected other women with
safe abortion providers. As the underground flourished,
Jane discovered they knew as much about safe abortions as
anyone, so they learned to perform abortions. [buy
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- This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor. by Susan Wicklund MD. Public Affairs. 2007. Describes her work, the circumstances that lead her patients to choose abortion, and the barriers lack of money, lack of providers, violence in the home or protesters at clinics that stand in their way.
- Undivided
Rights : Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice
by Jael Silliman, Loretta Ross, Elena Gutiérrez,
and Marlene Gerber Fried. 2004. South End Press. Vibrant
and fierce, Undivided Rights presents a fresh, textured
understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing
the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color
in the foreground. This rare book captures the evolving
and largely unreported history of women of color organizing
themselves in their struggle for reproductive justice.
- The War on Choice by Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 2004
- What
if Roe Fell? from the Center
for Reproductive Rights. State by state analysis of
what would happen if Roe v Wade got overturned by the Supreme
Court? Download the report for free.
- When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and Law
in the United States, 1867-1973 by Leslie J. Reagan.
1997. University of California Press, Berkeley. Explains
the changing cultural and legal climate regarding abortion
in America from about the end of the Civil War, when the
law ignored abortion before quickening (occurring usually
during the fourth month of pregnancy), until Roe v.
Wade, when it was legalized. [buy
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- Why I Am An Abortion Doctor by Suzanne T. Poppema.
Prometheus Books, 1996. The title tells it all, Dr.
Poppema, who practices in Seattle, inspires us with her
reasons for performing abortions and why she won't quit.
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- Young Women's Voices by the Civil Liberties
and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College, Amherst,
Massachusetts. 1993. In their own words, a collection
of writings documenting personal stories, struggles, fears,
anger and the fight for reproductive rights. [buy
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- America's
Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and
Heroines by Gail Collins, the first female head
of The New York Times editorial board. book/author
review
- An Intricate Weave: Women Write About Girls
and Girlhood. Edited by Marlene Miller. 1997.
Published by Iris Editions. Anthology of 67 authors reveals
the importance of girls' experiences. [buy
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- An Old Soul with a Young Spirit: Poetry in the Era
of Desegregation Recovery. Poems by Antronette
Yancey, Art by Todd Berrien. Published by Imhotep
Publishing. 1998. [buy
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- Believing in Ourselves:
The Wisdom of Women.
by Madame De Steal, 1992. Ariel Books
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- Black, White, and Jewish : Autobiography of a Shifting
Self by Rebecca
Walker. December 2000.
- Cybergrrl:
A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web
- The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler.
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- The Clitoral Truth:
The Secret World at Your Fingertips by Rebecca Chalker.
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- Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun:
Young Women & Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood
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- Facing the Wrath: Confronting the Right in
Dangerous Times by Sara Diamond. 1996. Common
Courage Press, Monroe Maine. Sara Diamond is one of the
country's foremost authorities on the Christian Right and
the other right-wing movements. [buy
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- The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman's Buying
Guide by Phyllis A. Katz and Margaret Katz. 1997.
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- Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
by Anne Roiphe. 1997. What Roiphe has to say
about abortion, and what she has to say about having and
raising children, are too important to be missed. [buy
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- The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st
Century by Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey.
Published by: Addison Wesley. 1998. Those who can't envision
the future may be doomed--or, less likely, delighted--to
live through it, say Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey,
co-authors of "The Futures of Women." Catapulting
just two decades ahead, the creative duo use some science
and a lot of art to project four different fates for women
around the globe. One vision has women basking in a golden
age of equality and opportunity. Another shoves women to
the bottom of the heap as country after country unleashes
a nightmarish backlash to squash gains in women's rights.
A third scenario has international women's organizations
scrambling to hold the line on basic gains in better nutrition,
workplace safety, and domestic violence prevention. [buy
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- Generations: A Century of Women Speak About
Their Lives by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich.
1997. [buy
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- The Girls We Were: The Women We Learn to Be, Lynn
Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan (1990), Harvard University
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- Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards - they have traveled the world getting involved and making a difference. Includes profiles of everyday women who made change happen. (2005)
- The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo.
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- Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military
by Linda Bird Francke. 1997. [buy
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- A History of Women in America
by Carol Hymowitz and Micahaele Weissman, 1978,
by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. [buy
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- The Homeless One: A Poem In Many Voices by Esther
Altshul Helfgott. Published by KotaPress in Seattle,
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look at homelessness and mental illness. [buy
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- The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the
Woman's Rights Movement, by Miriam Gurko.
New York, Shocken Books, 1974. [buy
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- Listen To Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama
Midwife by Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes.
Ohio State University Press. "Captures the history
of an individual midwife and the ways in which her experience
reflects the Black female experience in Greene County, Alabama
and similar communities." [buy
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- Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
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- The Maimie Papers: Letters from an Ex-Prostitute
by Maimie Pinzer with Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson, editors.
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- Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
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- Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
by Sissela Bok. 1999. A study of the long-term
effects of media violence against women, children, and in
general. Addison-Wesley Publishers. [buy
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- Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and
Girls' Development. Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan
(1992), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA [buy
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- Pigeonholing Women's Misery: A History and
Critical Analysis of the Psychodiagnosis of Women in the
Twentieth Century by Hannah Lerman, Ph.D,
published by Basic Books/Harper Collins. 1996. Available
form the author for $12.
- Pride
and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children,
by Terri Casey. 1998. Collection of interviews
with 25 women who have chosen not to have children. In lively
stories and vivid voices, these diverse narrators talk proudly
of their contributions to their communities, causes, and
families, and they speak joyfully of intimate relationships
with husbands and partners, of family and friends, work,
volunteer and leisure activities, solitude, and connections
with children. Their stories dispel the social myth that
women must have a child to be happy, and they debunk the
stereotypes of childless women.
- Prisoners of Ritual by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein.
Psychological, sociological, historical, religious, and
legal aspects of female genital mutilation in Africa. [buy
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- Race, Gender, and Work, A Multicultural Economic
History of Women in the US by Theresa Amott and Julie
Matthaei. (newly revised) A comprehensive analysis of
the lives of working women - of all ethnic heritages - highlighting
racial-ethnic and class hierarchies and their impact on
women's lives. [buy
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- The Rape
Poems by Frances Driscoll, 1998 - a narrative
sequence exploring the rape and its aftermath. The last
poem in the collection, Island Of The Raped Women
is a Pushcart Prize winner.
- Recreating Motherhood by Barbara Katz
Rothman. It's out of print now, but I'm sure you
could find it in a library.
- The Republican War Against Women: An Insider's Report
from Behind the Lines by Tanya Melich. A stunning
expose of the politics of intolerance. [buy
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- Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and
Political Power in the United States by Sara Diamond.
1995, Guilford Press. [buy
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- The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock
by Barbara O'Dair, editor. 1997. [buy
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- To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face
of Feminism by Rebecca
Walker. 1995
- The Single Woman: A Discursive Investigation - by Jill Reynolds - The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society.
Most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a committed partner relationship. 2008. Published by Routledge.
- Sisters of the Yam, Black Women and Self-Recovery
by bell hooks. Puts women's experiences into a political
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- Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian
Right by Sara Diamond 1989.
South End Press. [buy
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- Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation
and Beyond by Liz McQuiston. 1997. [buy
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- Talking Back, Thinking Feminist, Talking Black
by bell hooks. 23 of bell hooks' angry, intelligent,
critical, and compelling essays on numerous subjects. [buy
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- Wake Up Little Suzie: Single Pregnancy and Race
Before Roe v Wade by Rickie Sollinger. Illuminates
the separate and different experiences of white and black
unwed mothers after World War Two. [buy
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- Women of Courage by Catherine Martin, Portland,
OR. 1999. New World Library. [buy
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- Women’s
Best Friendships: Beyond Betty, Veronica, Thelma, and
Louise by Patricia Rind, PhD, Rye Brook, New York
- Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self,
Voice and Mind. Marly Belenky, Blythe Clinchy,
Nancy Goldberger and Jill Torule (1986), Basic Books,
New York [buy
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- Women's Wheel of Life by Carol Leonard
with Elizabeth Davis. Viking Penguin. Women's lives
from birth, through menstruation, mothering, menopause,
aging. [buy
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- The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker
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- The 4th Procedure by Sidney Pottinger. A
suspenseful mystery involving a member of Congress, a Supreme
Court Judge, a brilliant surgeon and a civil rights attorney.
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- The Amendment by Sue Robinson. 1990. Suspenseful
story about a First Lady who leads the Rights for the Unborn
League and what happens after they are successful at making
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- Cider House Rules by John Irving.
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- There is a Bomb in Gilead by
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- An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer
by W. John Diamond, MD and W. Lee Cowden,
MD with Burton Goldberg. 1997. Future Medicine
Publishing. How cancer can be reversed and prevented. Explains
origin of cancer. Chapters on breast and uterine/ovarian
cancer. [buy
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- Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits, and Prevention
by Liane Clorfene-Casten. Reveals the links between
the companies who produce toxic chemicals, their support
for breast cancer organizations, and their profits from
other chemicals they also produce for cancer therapies.
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- Breast Cancer: Society shapes an epidemic.
By Anne S. Kasper and Susan Ferguson (editors). St.
Martins Press. Examines how economics, politics, gender,
social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced
the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth
of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals
of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women's
experiences with breast cancer. [buy
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- Cancer as a Woman's Issue: Scratching the Surface
by Midge Stocker. 20 essays by women affected by cancer.
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- Cancer in Two Voices. By Sandra Butler
and Barbara Rosenblum. Spinsters Inc. 1991. An honest
and moving memoir, written with humor and sorrow, by a sociologist
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- Dr. Susan Love's Breast Care Book. [buy
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- Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer
by Sharon Batt. 1994. The politics behind research and
treatment options - in very human terms. [buy
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- Stopping Cancer at the Source by M.
Sara Rosenthal, 2001. This book outlines many of
the environmental causes of cancer, and discusses how the
public can lobby government for change to reduce exposure
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- To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast
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- A Woman's Decision by Karen Berger and John
Bostwick. 1994. An informative look at breast cancer,
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- Women's Cancers: How to Prevent Them, How to Treat
Them, How to Beat Them by Kerry McGinn, RN and Pamela
Haylock, RN. From cell-level descriptions of cancer
to overviews of the physical and psychological responses
to cancer, this book covers breast, pelvic, ovarian, uterine,and
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- Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book by Susan
M. Love, MD and Karen Lindsey. 1997. [buy
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- Each in Her Own Way, Women Writing on the
Menopause. Edited by Elizabeth Claman. 1994.
Queen of Swords Press, Eugene, Oregon. Anthology of poetry
and prose about the change of life. [buy
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- Endocrinology of Women by José Botella-Llusiá
MD. Translated from Spanish. 1978. [buy
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- Estrogen: The Natural Way by Nina Shandler.
Villard Books. 1997. All about phytoestrogens,
including 250 recipes. [buy
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- Healthy Bones: What You Should Know about Osteoporosis
by Nancy Appleton. 1991. Avery Publishing. The author
looks to the causes of why calcium is drawn out of bones
and foods to balance our body's chemistry. [buy
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- The Hysterectomy Hoax by Stanley West and Paula
Dranov. 1994. Explains why most hysterectomies are unnecessary.
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- Menopause
Handbook. Published by the Montreal
Health Press. (Canada) updated and revised 1999.
Hormones, alternatives, basic information about changes,
social analysis. In English or French. 877-282-1171
(toll free) , 514-282-1171
- Menopause Myths & Facts - What Every Woman
Should Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy by Lorraine
Rothman with Marcia Wexler. 1999. Published by
Feminist Health
Press. Identifies 26 myths and gives easy-to-understand
facts and explanations. Lorraine
Rothman is a co-founder of Los Angeles (CA) FWHC
where Marcia also worked. Available here.
- New Menopausal Years, The Wise Woman Way:
Alternative Approaches for Women
30-90 by Susun S. Weed. Ash
Tree Publishing. Nutritional, herbal, and ritual
ideas for healthier transition years. Natural safe remedies
for all symptoms. Read article
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- The Menopause Industry - How the Medical Establishment
Exploits Women by Sandra Koney. Forward by
Barbara
Seaman. 1994. The title says it all.
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- Menopause by Miriam Stoppard, MD.
Dorling Kindersley Publishing. 1994. A thorough explanation
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- Menopause, A Positive Approach by Rosetta
Reitz. Penguin Books. 1985. Reitz's personal exploration
of women's middle years. [buy
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- Menopause: A Guide for Women and Men Who Love
Them by Winfred B. Cuttler, PhD and Celso-Ramon Garcia,
MD. Norton. 1992. Well researched, highly detailed
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- Menopause and Midlife Health by Morris
Notelovitz, MD and Diana Tonnessen. St. Martin's
Press. 1993. Accurate and up to date info on osteoporosis,
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- Menopause, Me and
You: The Sound of Women Pausing by Ann M. Voda,
RN, PhD. Haworth Press. 1997. Menopause as a normal
and natural developmental process in the lives of women,
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- Menopause Naturally: Preparing for the Second
Half of Life by Sadja Greenwood. Volcano Press, 1996.
Exciting new discoveries about soybeans, the complete source
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- Mind over Menopause: The complete Mind/Body Approach
to Coping with Menopause by Leslee Kagan, Bruce Kessel
and Herbert Benson, 2004. This book will be a breath
of fresh air for many women coping with some of the more
problematic changes that can accompany the "peri-menopause.
... However the section on breast cancer screening is weak..."
says Judy Norsigian in the newsletter of the National Women's
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- The Noisy Passage, Baby Boomers Do Menopause
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- The Power of Peri-Menopause by Stephanie
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- Osteoporosis:
My High Calcium, Low Cholesterol Diet by Rosemary C.
Fisher. Published by Warren H. Green, Inc. Rosemary
reversed her own osteoporosis by diet and exercise. Her
books give the recipes and instructions.
- Ourselves Growing Older, Women Aging with Knowledge
and Power, by Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin
Siegal of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 1994.
A complete health and life handbook for midlife and older
women. [buy
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- Recipes and Research on Dementia, Hearth Disease,
Osteoporosis, and Cancer
by Rosemary C. Fisher. Published by Warren H. Green,
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- Recipes and Research on Osteoporosis,,
Hearth Disease, and Cancer by Rosemary C. Fisher.
Published by Warren H. Green, Inc. Shows how eating low
fat plus essential vitamins and minerals can reverse disease.
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- Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections
Women Suspect ... and Doctors Ignore by Elizabeth Lee
Vliet, MD. M. Evans, Publisher. 1995. Outstanding,
thorough, in-depth review of all menopausal symptoms, cause
of symptoms, natural ways to achieve nutritional, emotional,
hormonal balance. Extremely valuable book. [buy
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- The Silent Passage: Menopause by Gail
Sheehey. Random House. 1991. Good overview and
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- The Taking Charge of Menopause Workbook
by Dosh, Fukushima, Lewis, Ross, and Steinmen. New Harbinger
Publications. Interactive workbook by a multi-disciplinary
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- Taking Hormones and Women's Health: Choices,
Risks, and Benefits. 1998. a pamphlet published
by the National Women's Health Network in Washington, DC.
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- Transformation Through Menopause by Marian Van
Eyk McCain. [buy
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- Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones
by Barbara
Seaman and Gideon Seaman, MD. 1977. a classic,
now out of print.
- Women
at the Well: The Many Voices of Menopause -
available through Xlibris by calling 888-795-4274.While
hundreds of books have been written by experts and doctors
about symptoms and treatments, Women at the Well is unique
in that it is simply woman to woman. The authors are available
for speaking engagements by calling 215-424-3190 or 215-741-1828.
- "Power
Surge" website featuring online chats, AOL's
Women's Interest Channel, Community Conference Online, regularly
scheduled chat guests. Also weekly talks with naturopaths,
authors and doctors.
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- Free to Be ... You and Me by Marlo Thomas
and Friends. Running Press. New 1999 Edition. Class
children's book that emphasizes growing up human, whatever
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- Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (And When)
About Sex and Family Building by Anne Bernstein.
"Children three and four years old do raise questions. By
the time they are three or four, there are five things they
need to know," including the proper names of sexual body
parts; the essential differences between boys and girls;
the right terminology for some bodily functions; the fact
that babies grow in their mothers' bodies; and the concept
that babies are produced by mothers and fathers together.
Bernstein adds that between ages four and eight, children
should understand the sexual functions of the penis, vagina,
sperm and egg. If by age eight a child has not yet asked
sexual questions, parents should take the initiative to
discuss sex with them, as psychologists agree that children
taught about sex at an earlier age may make better sexual
decisions." [buy
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Girls
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- The Body Project: An Intimate History of American
Girls. By Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Random House,
1997. This award-winning book by historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg
convincingly argues that controlling our bodies through
dieting, surgery, and exercise is now considered a moral
imperative and has become the central goal of American girls.
A scary and essential book. [buy
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- Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh.
Houghton Mifflin. 2000. Inventions by girls and women. [buy
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- Going All the Way: Teenage girls' tales of sex, romance and pregnancy by Sharon Thompson.
- Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (And When)
About Sex and Family Building by Anne Bernstein. "Children three and four years old do raise questions. By
the time they are three or four, there are five things they
need to know," including the proper names of sexual body
parts; the essential differences between boys and girls;
the right terminology for some bodily functions; the fact
that babies grow in their mothers' bodies; and the concept
that babies are produced by mothers and fathers together.
Bernstein adds that between ages four and eight, children
should understand the sexual functions of the penis, vagina,
sperm and egg. If by age eight a child has not yet asked
sexual questions, parents should take the initiative to
discuss sex with them, as psychologists agree that children
taught about sex at an earlier age may make better sexual
decisions." [buy
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- Let’s Talk About S-E-X - A Guide for Kids 9-to-12 and their Parents by Sam Gitchel & Lorrie Foster. Updated and published in 2005 by Book Peddlers. A discussion of feelings, what’s normal, body changes, making sense of love and sex, STDs and more. A big help for parents who don’t know where to start. ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH.
- Pemba Sherpa (Written by Olga Cossi, published by Odyssey Books in Colorado). This is a true story of the first female sherpa who later was the first female to summit Mount Everest from it's North Face. It is an empowering book of the female spirit overcoming in the form of a little girl who saves a life but also triumphs in a culture where the idea of a female sherpa (porter and guide) was not accepted. She died in a tragic accident on May 21, 2007 while on her way down after summitting Lhotse.
- Period. A Girl's Guide - by JoAnn Loulan and Bonnie Worthen. Published in 2003 by Book Peddlers. Updated coming-of-age guide for girls. Pullout Guide for Parents (excerpt online). ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH.
Sex
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- For Yourself and For Each Other by
Lonnie Barbach. Teaches women to understand their bodies
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- Going All the Way: Teenage girls' tales of sex, romance and pregnancy by Sharon Thompson.
- Harmful
to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
by Judith Levine. 2000. Foreword by Dr. Joycelyn
M. Elders. A radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment
of how we think and act about children's and teens' sexuality.
- Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual
Addiction by Sue
William Silverman (W. W. Norton), "In Love Sick,
I reveal how my sexual addiction was a misguided search
for love--a result of childhood incest."
- Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain, author the bestselling Art & Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? In this provocative new book, Shlain argues that profound alterations in female sexuality hold the key to this mystery.
- The Technology of Orgasm; "Hysteria,"
the Vibrator & Women's Sexual Satisfaction
by Rachel P. Maines. Published by Johns Hopkins University
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- The
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by Felice Newman - The first truly comprehensive
sex guide for all women who desire women-covers all aspects
of lesbian sex. Whether you are lesbian, bisexual, butch,
femme, androgynous, or transgendered-and even if you have
only just discovered that you want to have sex with a woman.
Pregnancy
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student. By Perri Klass. G.P. Putnam’s, 1987. Klass, a writer and pediatrician, describes her experiences as a medical student. Along the way, she explains how doctors learn to view pregnancy and childbirth as dangerous pathological events, rather than as natural processes, to value emotional detachment from patients, and to expect patients to accept their orders meekly.
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Midwifery and Childbirth in America. By Judith Rooks. Temple University Press, 1997. A comprehensive (hence the price) review of the history, legal status, scientific data, and current practices regarding childbirth in America. Covers medical care, nurse-midwives, and non-nurse midwives.
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