Product Description
The essential resource on women’s health and sexuality comes of age in this newly revised and updated edition of a long-loved classic. Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the decisions that will shape their health — and their … More >>
Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century
Tags: Bodies, Century, Ourselves
#1 by Katie on April 1, 2010 - 3:37 am
An alternative medicine physician recommended that I get this book. After reviewing the agenda of the BWHBC, I will not sell my soul to read the points that I find of value and compromise my feminist soul to support the organizations agenda and goals.This organization supports and promotes abortions, teen sex and the pill. If you want to support the voice of women who can not speak for themselves, I see no better starting point than supporting the truly voiceless, our unborn sisters and daughters.
If we spent as much time and effort teaching and lobbying for our daughters to continue there education and helping them find finacial support to reach there dreams, as we do educating them about “safe sex”, how much more fulfilled would there life be.
The pill; I can’t think of a worse invention that truly supresses our femininity. Biologically speaking, our hormones, influence our decision making and help us define ourselves. Why would you want to support an organization that aims to suppress ovulation and hormones, two of which naturally intertwines our femininity.
There are better books than this, that will give guideance without having to sell your soul, or those of our sisters and daughters to get information on our bodies and alternative medicine and healing.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 1, 2010 - 5:00 am
it was nothing but a waste of money and I’d advise people NEVER to buy this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 1, 2010 - 5:05 am
I was really excited to have a general womens health book to guide me through my 30’s and parenthood. Man, was I not prepared for the dominante lesbian perspectives and examples. As a liberal, I believe we are all equal regardless of our sexuality, however, I was just not prepared nor interested in that perspective. I was looking for some undercurrents that we bond together as women, regardless of our sexuality, not guided by it. I had no idea that was what I was getting. I had no heads up and that’s why I’m writing this. The content is not what was projected.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 1, 2010 - 7:06 am
This book is essential for every woman. Get it
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Sharon Lee on April 1, 2010 - 8:01 am
I got the 25th anniversary edition, dated 1998, for 25 cents or so at my local library. What I read was mildly interesting but not enlightening. I got a bit infuriated when, researching ‘anorexia’, I saw two entries which basically said: ‘Minimize the effects of stress by eating well, exercising, meditating, having foot rubs and long warm baths and taking (maybe 10 minutes?) to put things in perspective to get a grip. With ‘friends’ like these, who needs…??? Whatever happened to ‘throw the bum out’? Tell your parents to fudge themselves. Why not spend the next 10, 20, even 30 YEARS getting a grip?? I’m not even sure I’m going to bother with the chapter I was initially interested in: ‘Working Toward Mutuality. Our Relationships with Men.’
Rating: 2 / 5