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Summary: a must have for all women
Review: I am so glad I bought this book. It has everything you'd ever want to know about being a woman. Buy it for your teenagers or your sisters!!
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Summary: The Woman's "Bible"
Review: I first read Our Bodies Ourselves in 1974 when the youngest of my three daughters was five. When they became teenagers, each one received her own copy. I teach in a community college with a culturally diverse population. Through the years I have recommended it to all my female students: those who come into my office seeking advice and those in my women's studies class. It is a must for every woman, regardless of their age or ethnic background. I keep buying the updated versions for myself.
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Summary: Extremely helpful
Review: I had to use an edition of this book for a women's studies class in my freshman year of college. That class turned out to be one of the best things I ever did for myself, and the things I learned really gave me the help I needed to get through my first experiences as an independent person. I used this book to answer a lot of questions, and so did my friends. Not just about sexual health, but about nutrition, relationships, biology, and all the other things we deal with every day. I can't tell you how many important, personal conversations were centered around it. It helped us become much more informed about, and comfortable with, our bodies, which is very important for young women. It's definitely worth having in your home library, especially if you have daughters. It could help with all those awkward conversations parents need to have with their kids. It's very accessible, guys might want to read it too if they're curious about what's going on with us.
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Summary: How I survived adolescence, virginity, pregnancy and life
Review: I have every edition of the book and have recommended it to my friends and family for 25 years!! It has only gotten better with age.The book is strickly by women for women. Labor pains are not a theoretical concept in this group. These women know what they're talking about. The information is clearly presented and you can trust it. There is not doubt that the women speaking are political and have a point of view. You can skip reading the side bar discussions if left of center, feminist politics are not your thing (or you might read them and change your mind.) In either case, you need the medical and practical information. Personally, I found reading the personal thoughts of others in my situation was really helpful in dealing with my own feelings. This book will empower you in dealing with any medical situation by giving you good information on anatomy, procedures, medications, side effects, etc. and will help you ask the right questions before anything is done to your body or that of your mother, daughter, sister, friend, and in some areas, the men in your life as well.
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Summary: Hooray for Being a Woman!
Review: I have yet to find a better book which encapsulates every problem women face. Although I agree this book is political in places, the descriptions of specific health problems are accurate. Women have fought hard for almost a century to be equal to men and although in many cases we still have a long way to go, I think it is important to have a book that allows women to understand themselves inside and out. The media and practically all societies seem to help give an unhealthy and unrealistic standard and opinion of how women are meant to look and behave. No one ever outwardly talks about women's health and the problems women face. Thank goodness this book explains these things and also embraces the fact that women are not all the same, because frankly, we are not! We do not all have the same cycles or the same personalities- we are all individuals. We as women should embrace our similarities and our differences and rejoice in being human and most importantly female. Thank goodness for an honest book that teaches women that is ok to be women. Well done!
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Summary: Excellent, very useful!
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to learn about women's health. This is the third edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves and it is the best.
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Summary: A great resource
Review: I live in Japan, and I find that many of my Japanese female friends don't seem to have a good understanding of the basic mechanics of their own bodies. That may be the same in my own country, as well, but traditionally doctors in Japan are revered to the point that they are never questioned, and left to their own devices they seldom give detailed information to their patients. I say this because a little while ago a friend of mine was explaining a trip to the doctor for vague pain, and rather than getting an explanation of what he believed may be the cause of her pain, her doctor poked around, took some blood, and didn't say a word. I was shocked that she should feel so unconnected to what was being done to her body, and I remembered that the best resource I'd ever had to counter that feeling myself was the copy of Our Bodies Ourselves my mother thrust into my reluctant teenage hands years ago. I ordered a copy for my friend and myself. I read some of the negative reviews posted - I can't speak for all the comparisons people were making with other books available, but what I do know is that growing up this book answered all the questions I was afraid to ask and more I didn't even think of. Girls and women don't have to read only THIS book, but it's a fantastic place to start.
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Summary: Self Education and self awareness is very important!
Review: I love this book! I think this edition and the one before both represent freedom, courage and liberation amongst women across the globe. Freedom and choice are two things as women we must always remember we have!
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Summary: The must-have book for every woman- young and old.
Review: I only wish someone had given me this book when I was about 11 or 12. It is the perfect gift from a mother to her pre-teen daughter. Young women aren't given the appropriate respect when it comes to their intelligence and curiosity. This book does a wonderful job of giving them the answers they deserve in a mature and direct way.
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Summary: A must for every woman
Review: I read my first copy of this book at 14, and I don't know where I would be today without it. It taught me about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and answered questions I had about my anatomy and emerging sexuality that I desperately needed to know, but didn't know who to ask. Every woman should have access to this book. I gave my little sister a copy for her 13th birthday. Providing her with such a wonderful wealth of information is the best gift I could ever give. I highly reccomend this book for woman of all ages, but especialy for those who are "comming of age". Who knows, it may even save her life.. It quite possibly saved mine.
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