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Women's Sexual Health
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Could it Be Perimenopause?
by Steven R. Goldstein This compassionate and comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about perimenopause - the changes that occur in the decade before menopause. |
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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
by Susan M. Love, MD The landscape of breast cancer has changed. New, non-invasive diagnostic techniques, new knowledge about prevention, new genetics, new treatments, new alternative and complementary resources are beginning to turn breast cancer into a chronic and perhaps preventable disease. |
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Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices
by Susan M. Love, M.D. and Karen Lindsey In this revised edition, Dr. Love offers a remarkably clear set of guidelines as to what the studies have shown about the risks regarding heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, and other conditions, and what effect hormone therapy has on osteoporosis. |
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Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
by Paula Kamen Kamen interviewed more than 100 Generation X women, researchers, and activists for this insightful examination of how women's sexual attitudes have changed and how those changes are reflected in current U.S. culture. |
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Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal
by Jeannine Parvati Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal is the first book of its kind to interweave the ancient practice of herbalism with the new women's consciousness and wholistic health. |
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Longing to Tell: Black Women's Stories of Sexuality and Intimacy
by Tricia Rose By letting the women speak for themselves and following the histories with a passionate afterword, Rose provides a collection of oral histories from African-American women that is as compelling as it is sorely needed. |
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Motherhood in Bondage
by Margaret Sanger First published in 1928, "Motherhood in Bondage" is a selection culled from the thousands of letters written to birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger by women frantically seeking the means to control their own childbearing. |
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NEW OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER : REVISED AND UPDATED
by Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin Siegal This new and revised edition of the bestselling Ourselves, Growing Older includes new chapters on menopause and reform of the medical care system as well as extensive updates on housing issues, HIV/AIDS, cosmetic surgery, and breast cancer. |
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Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century
by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective By updating and continuing to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health, this edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. |
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Planning Your Pregnancy and Birth, Third Edition
by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists From planning for a baby, through pregnancy and birth, to those important first weeks of a new life, advice is offered to educate, to inoform, to relieve, and to prepare pregnant women for one of the most thrilling and fulfilling times in their lives. |
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Salud!: A Latina's Guide to Total Health-Body, Mind, and Spirit
by Jane L. Delgado, Ph.D. Salud! is the first comprehensive reader-friendly health guide specifically designed with the Latina woman in mind. The first part of the book examines the problems Latinas often face in the new health care system, arming them with the real-life strategies they need to overcome them. |
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Stolen Women : Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
by Dr. Gail Elizabeth Wyatt Gail Elizabeth Wyatt's Stolen Women explores how body identities are often shaped by deeply rooted myths and cultural stereotypes. |
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
by Rachel P. Maines Going far beyond a mere summary of therapeutic advances, Maines wryly chronicles the attitude toward women's sexuality in the medical and psychological professions and shows, with searing insight, how some ancient biases are still prevalent in our society. |
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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
by Christiane Northrup, M.D. The author, a holistic physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, seeks to illuminate the basic conditions of women's lives that lead to their health problems. |