Our bodies, ourselves
Summary
"The gold standard for women's health books, in time for the fortieth anniversary of the book's first publication, featuring new material and a completely updated approach to critical women's health issues. The name "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has become synonymous with women's health and protecting it.... Full description
- Our female bodies : sexual anatomy, reproduction, and the menstrual cycle
- Intro to sexual health
- Body image
- Gender identity and sexual orientation
- Relationships
- Social influences on sexuality
- Sexual pleasure and enthusiastic consent
- Sexual challenges
- Birth control
- Safer sex
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Unexpected pregnancy
- Abortion
- Considering parenting
- Pregnancy and preparing for birth
- Labor and birth
- Early months of parenting
- Miscarriage, stillbirth, and other losses
- Infertility and assisted reproductive techonologies
- Perimenopause and menopause
- Our later years
- Selected medical problems
- Navigating the health care system
- Violence against women
- Environment and occupational health
- Politics of women's health
- Activism in the twenty-first century.