2012 by Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge
Portions of this book appeared in For Women Only! 1999 by Gary Null and Barbara Seaman (Seven Stories Press).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Voices of the womens health movement / edited by Barbara Seaman; with Laura Eldridge.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-60980-447-3
1. WomenHealth and hygiene. 2. WomenHealth and hygieneHistory. I. Seaman, Barbara. II. Eldridge, Laura.
[DNLM: 1. Womens HealthUnited StatesCollected Works. 2. FeminismUnited StatesCollected Works. 3. FeminismhistoryUnited StatesCollected Works. 4. History, 19th CenturyUnited StatesCollected Works. 5. History, 20th CenturyUnited StatesCollected Works. 6. Womens HealthhistoryUnited StatesCollected Works. 7. Womens RightsUnited StatesCollected Works. 8. Womens RightshistoryUnited StatesCollected Works. WA 309]
RA564.85.V65 2012
362.1082dc22
2010016341
v3.1
Contents
Introduction
by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge
Parlor Massages
by Leora Tanenbaum
The Sexual Revolution Wasnt Our War
by Anselma DellOlio
The Liberated Orgasm
by Barbara Seaman
The Sexuality Questionnaire
by Shere Hite
Shere Hite Debunks Freuds Vaginal Orgasm
by Sarah J. Shey
A New View of Womens Sexual Problems
by The Working Group on a New View of Womens Sexual Problems
Boys, Girls, Men, and Women: Variables of Experience
by Rebecca Plante
Sex is Not a Natural Act
by Leonore Tiefer
The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America
by Meika Loe
Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation
by Leora Tanenbaum
Tell Me More, Tell Me More: Young Womens Locker Room Talk as a Boomer-Feminist Legacy
by Paula Kamen
Self-Help Gynecology
edited by Kofi Taha
Carol Downers History-Bearing: Brushes with the Law
by Gena Corea
Empowering the Pelvic Exam
by Lila A. Wallis
Self-Helpless Gynecology
by Caedmon Magboo Cahill
The Bridal Shower: We Havent Come a Long Way, Baby
by Betty Dodson
Psychology Constructs the Female
by Naomi Weisstein
Demeter Revisited
by Phyllis Chesler
Dominants
by Jean Baker Miller
Mental Patients Political Action Committee
by Ellen Frankfort
An Interview with Jules Masserman
Kathryn Watterson
Lineal Victims
by Phyllis L. Fine
Airless Spaces
by Shulamith Firestone
Catfight
by Leora Tanenbaum
Women and Madness: a Feminist Diagnosis
by Phyllis Chesler
Maud
by Nell Casey
Addiction by Prescription: Women and the Problem of Tranquilizers
by Andrea Tone
Women and Drug Addiction
by Stephen R. Kandall
Silver Hills
by Erica Warren
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
by Susan Brownmiller
Rape Doesnt End with a Kiss
by Pauline Bart
Rape in Great Art
by Audrey Flack
Working to End Sexual Violence on College Campuses
by Helen Lowery and Nicole Levitz
Trauma and Recovery
by Judith Herman
How to Befriend a Battered Woman
by Barbara Seaman and Leslye E. Orloff
Fifty Ways Not to Leave an Abusive Spouse
by Elaine Weiss
Out of Control
by Norma Fox Mazer
Our Guys
by Bernard Lefkowitz
The Campaign to Free Charline
by Jennifer Gonnerman
Surviving Intimate Terrorism
by Hedda Nussbaum
Women in Motion
by Lucinda Franks
The Athletic Triad: A Dangerous Triangle
by Lila A. Wallis
Patsy Mink on Title IX
interview by Tania Ketenjian
Why Feminists Are in Such Good Shape
by Amelia Richards
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
by Susie Orbach
Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America
by Marcia Millman
The Beauty Myth
by Naomi Wolf
Sacrificing Ourselves for Love
by Jane Wegscheider Hyman and Esther R. Rome
Aging (balm for a 27th birthday)
by Erica Jong
The No-Nonsense Approach to Cleaning Your Face
by Deborah Chase
Susan Brownmiller on Appearance and Makeup
by Carrie Carmichael
Body Hair: The Last Frontier
by Harriet Lyons and Rebecca Rosenblatt
All Hair the Conquering Heroine
by Lois Gould
Femininity
by Susan Brownmiller and Carrie Carmichael
Memoirs of a (Sorta) Ex-Shaver
by Carolyn Mackler
Browbeating
by Hagar Scher
Dreading It. Or How I Learned to Stop Fighting My Hair and Love My Nappy Roots
by Veronica Chambers
The Anatomy of Your Breasts
by Marvin S. Eiger and Sally Wendkos Olds
The Bra Story
by Lori Barer
Breast Reduction
by Marta Drury
Breakthrough Against Female Genital Mutilation
by Noy Thrupkaew
Charity Girl
by Michael Lowenthal
Sexually Transmitted Diseases on College Campuses
by Lori Barer
A Circle of Women
by Tara Greenway
And for Breast-feeding, Too, the Band Played On
by Edith White
Midlife and Older Women Living with HIV/AIDS
by Jane P. Fowler
Breaking the Walls of Silence: AIDS and Women in a Maximum State Prison
by AIDS Counseling and Education Program, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Womens Health Care in Prison
by Cassandra Shaylor
The Oral History of Rose Kushner
interview by Anne S. Kasper
Dr. Susan Love
interview by Tania Ketenjian
Stolen Conflicts: A Feminist Revisioning
by Sharon Batt
Fighting the War on Breast Cancer: How a Metaphor Has Shaped the Debate on Early Detection and Treatment
by Barron H. Lerner
Anne S. Kasper
interview by Tania Ketenjian
Womens Hearts at Risk
by Charlotte Libov
The Myth of Osteoporosis
by Gillian Sanson
The Amazing Story of DES
by Barbara Seaman and Gideon Seaman
Its Only Once Around the Merry-Go-Round
by Margot Adler
How Do You Know Its True?
by Victor Cohn
Diana Petitti, MD
interview by Tania Ketenjian
A Different Prescription
by Anne Rochon Ford
Should Prescription Drugs Be Advertised?
by Michael Castleman and Maryann Napoli
The American Cancer Society: The Worlds Wealthiest Nonprofit Institution
by Sam Epstein
Out of Pain and Anger
by Marilyn Webb
Good Mourning, America
by Amy Pagnozzi
Dying into Grace: Mother and Daughter a Dance of Healing
by Artemis March
Changing Concepts of Womens Health: Advocating for Change
by Julia Scott
The Whole Woman
by Germaine Greer
Womens Health and Government Regulation: 19501980
by Suzanne White Junod