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Women's Health
  • Bell, Ruth and other co-authors of "Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ourselves and Our Children": Changing Bodies, Changing Lives, 1998 (3rd edition), Times Books (a division of Random House), 320 pages, ISBN: 081292990X
    By one of the authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book specifically for teenagers, answers questions about teen health and sexuality with sensitivity and humor.

  • Boston Women's Health Book Collective: Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century : A Book by and for Women, 1998 (revised and updated edition), Touchstone Books, 752 pages, ISBN: 0844669814
    The recently updated version of the classic text of the women's health movement continues to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health. Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. It remains a valuable resource for women of all ages and backgrounds. Ester Shapiro of the team which authored this title has offered to help develop local versions of this book.

  • Brown, D., Laskin-Siegal, P. & Laskin-Siegal, D., in cooperation with the Boston Women's Health Collective, authors of "Our Bodies, Ourselves":Ourselves, Growing Older: Women Aging with Knowledge and Power, 1994, Touchstone Books, 531 pages, ISBN: 0671872974
    Following in the ground breaking tradition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Ourselves Growing Older addresses the health questions and needs of women over 40.

  • Chernin, Kim: The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness, 1994, Harperperennial Library, 206 pages, ISBN: 0060925051
    A deeply committed, eloquent analysis of the increasing demand that women be thin. "Kim Chernin quietly and thoroughly undermines--one hopes forever--the popular, widely endured tyranny of 'thinness' over women's bodies and souls."--Alice Walker

  • El Saadawi, Nawal: The Nawal El Saadawi Reader, 1997, Zed Books, 288 pages, ISBN: 1856495140
    An anthology of the noted Egyptian feminist activist and scholar, the book addresses issues such as women and health in the Arab world, women and fundamentalism and women and poverty.

  • Farmer, P., Connors, M. & Simmons, J. (eds.): Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex Drugs and Structural Violence, 1997, Common Courage Press, 472 pages, ISBN: 1567510752
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of women in the global AIDS pandemic and analyzes the social, political and economic forces which continue to place women at risk for HIV infection.

  • Fried, Marlene Gerber (ed.): From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom, Transforming a Movement, 1990, South End Press, 317 pages, ISBN: 089608387X
    This anthology argues for an expansion of the single-issue abortion-rights movement into multi-cultural feminist movement. Filled with a diverse collection of essays and poetry, this anthology is highly readable and accessible.

  • Landau, C., Cyr, M. G. (Contributor) & Moulton, A. W. (Contributor): The Complete Book of Menopause: Every Woman's Guide to Good Health, 1995, Perigee, 367 pages, ISBN: 0399519068
    The most complete book on menopause on the market, this "compassionate and empowering resource" (Dr. Karen Johnson, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco) offers clear, detailed information on both physical and emotional issues.

  • Northrup, Christiane: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing, 1998 (2nd Revised edition), Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 906 pages, ISBN: 0553379534
    Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.

  • Petchesky, Rosalind P. & Judd, Karen (eds.): Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures, 1998, Zed Books, 320 pages, ISBN: 1856495353
    Based on in-depth group and individual interviews with hundreds of women in diverse settings, the book asks when, whether and how grassroots women express a sense of entitlement or self-determination in everyday decisions about childbearing, work, marriage, fertility control and sexual relations. What strategies do women employ in their negotiations with parents, husbands or partners, health providers, and the larger community over reproductive and sexual matters? What role do economic constraints, religion, tradition, motherhood, and group participation play in shaping their decisions?

  • Stark, Evan & Flitcraft, Anne: Domestic Violence and Women's Health, 1996, Sage Publications, 288 pages, ISBN: 0-8039-7040-4 (Cloth), ISBN: 0-8039-7041-2 (Paper)
    This volume, the result of 15 years of research conducted by the authors - a social worker and physician respectively - explores the theoretical perspectives of this dramatic expression of male domination, together with health consequences for women and clinical interventions.

  • Steinem, Gloria: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, 1993, Little Brown & Co, 421 pages, ISBN: 0316812471
    The well-know women's rights activist and feminist organizer connects the external revolution to an internal revolution of spirit and consciousness, offering readers parables from the lives of figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi and Julie Andrews.

  • Sándor, Judit: Health Care and Jurisprudence1997, Medicina
    The author describes and analyses lessons drawn from 13 year- jurisdiction in the field of medical liability in Hungary. The book is based on a nation-wide survey of medical litigation, and contains both descriptive, as well as, analytical and critical chapters on health care law. Special chapters deal with patients' rights and thoughts about fault and no-fault compensation system. In Hungary this book is used as a manual both by civil courts, insurance companies, patients' organizations, health care policy makers and by academic scholars. In order to use the book for general purposes it needs some revision and inclusion of some legal changes since 1996.

  • Wegscheider Hyman, Jane & Rome, Esther in cooperation with The Boston Women's Health Book Collective: Sacrificing Ourselves for Love: Why Women Compromise Health and Self Esteem … and How to Stop, 1996, The Crossing Press, 230 pages
    A practical book which examines why many women and girls risk their health and well being in order to please others. Includes personal narratives and useful exercises.

  • Zavirsek, Darja: Women and Mental Health: About the New Cultures of Care1994, Visoka sola za socialno delo, Ljubljana, 333 pages
    The book deals with the experience of different groups of women and female individuals, about whom we talk in a withhold manner even when we have in mind the female individuals who seek professional help. They are the women who experience violence, those who were raped or sexually abused, the prostitutes, those who are dependent on legal and illegal drugs or those who have the stigma of the psychiatric institution.