New edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves released

[MountainLaurel]

It advocates access to safe and legal abortions for all women, decries Brazilian bikini waxing for making adults resemble prepubescent girls, supports same-sex couples' right to marry and contains a six-part, illustrated tour of the female anatomy — featuring "the vagina and its neighbors."

"Our Bodies, Ourselves" is anything but a dull health-reference book.

Thirty-five years after its debut as an angry feminist booklet that railed against condescending doctors, a newly revised edition of "Our Bodies" is targeting a new generation of readers.

The 2005 update, the first since 1998, weighs in on a host of new issues, including hormone therapy, stem-cell research, Medicare prescription-drug coverage and informed medical consent. At the same time, the book retains much of the original's bracing candor and graphic sexual content that in the early 1980s spurred the Rev. Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority to denounce it as "obscene trash."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2002261679_healthourbodies04.html

Get thee to a bookstore and pick up this gem!

[flamingyouth]

1. Thanks for the tip

I still have mine from college in the '80s, and it's probably high time I replace it. It's a necessity for every woman's bookshelf. :thumbsup:

[MountainLaurel]

2. Need a new one too

I moved last fall, and unfortunately because of space limitations on my SO's bookshelves, much of my book collection ended up donated to the public library system, or to the library where I work.

[Warpy]

3. The original remains in my collection

and I remember being delighted at Fartwell's reaction to it.

Anything that pisses off a religious patriarch is fine with me, especially when it's information about my own body, information they always want to suppress.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. I saw it at the bookstore the other day! My paychecks hits today...

gotta go to the bookstore!

[Kerrytravelers]

5. Bought my copy of Our Bodies, Our Selves.

Received a round of applause from by GYN (a very cool Dem!)

[Southpaw Bookworm]

6. Thanks for reminding me!

I saw a review of this a while back, but I had moved and only recently finished getting my bookshelves in order.

A necessary book in any home with a woman or girl in it.