Women's Health

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Updated January 2, 2026
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Our bodies, ourselves : a new edition for a new era
Paper Book
With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being. Completely revised for the first time in a decade, this edition provides all the information women need to make key decisions...
In a different voice : psychological theory and women's development
Gilligan, Carol
Ebook
This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated...
All in her head : the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today
Comen, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award USA Today Bestseller "All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women's bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller,...
New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe
Sarah Franklin
Ebook
Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia
Paper Book
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on...
Period : the real story of menstruation
Clancy, Kathryn B. H.
Ebook
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as...

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