| Contents Notes |
Taking care of ourselves -- 1. Body image -- 2. Eating well -- 3. Alcohol, tobacco, and other mood-altering drugs -- 4. Our bodies in motion -- 5. Complementary health practices -- 6. Emotional well-being -- 7. Environmental and occupational health -- 8. Violence and abuse -- Relationships and sexuality -- 9. Gender identity and sexual orientation -- 10. Relationships with men -- 11. Relationships with women -- 12. Sexuality -- Sexual health -- 13. Sexual anatomy, reproduction, and the menstrual cycle -- 14. Safer sex -- 15. Sexually transmitted infections -- 16. HIV and AIDS -- Reproductive choices -- 17. Considering parenting -- 18. Birth control -- 19. Unexpected pregnancy -- 20. Abortion -- Childbearing -- 21. Pregnancy -- 22. Childbirth -- 23. The first year of parenting -- 24. Childbearing loss -- 25. Infertility and assisted reproduction -- Growing older -- 26. Midlife and menopause -- 27. Our later years -- Medical problems and procedures -- 28. Unique to women -- 29. Special concerns for women -- Knowledge is power -- 30. Navigating the health care system -- 31. The politics of women's health -- 32. Organizing for change -- Glossary -- Resources. Includes information on abortion, abuse, adolescent girls, aging, alcoholism, black women, breast cancer, breast feeding, breasts, cancer, cervix, cesarean sections, clitoris, clitoridectomy, complementary health practices, condoms, cramps, depression, diabetes, diets, women with disabilities, drugs, eating disorders, environmental and occupational health, estrogen, food, hormones, hormone therapy, hysterectomy, infertility, IUDs, labor, lesbians, masturbation, menopause, menstrual cycle, menstruation, miscarriage, Native Americans, orgasms, pelvic inflammatory disease, penis, pesticides, poverty, racism, rape, sexuality transmitted infections (STIs), sexual orientation, smoking, support groups, vagina, violence, women of color, etc. |
