VOICES OF THE WOMEN’S HEALTH MOVEMENT

Book ID/图书代码： 12070012B51692

English Summary/英文概要： Science journalist Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) spent the last forty years of her life on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Throughout her career, she was also a tireless supporter of other women’s voices. Here she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control. The more than two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科学记者芭芭拉•希曼（1935-2008）她生命的最后四十多年，投入在倡导妇女健康的前沿。在她的职业生涯中，她还是一位孜孜不倦的其他妇女声音的支持者。在本书中，她汇集了一些著名活动家，作家，医生，社会学家在诸多主题，包括生育权利，性别和性高潮，积极性，母性和节育上的文章，专访和评论。包括两百多位作者，如Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf等人。(兼职翻译-LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：2.19.12, Women’s E News (excerpt)
http://www.womensenews.org/story/health/120218/women-speak-and-take-control-their-health
Laura Eldridge, in a posthumous collaboration with Barbara Seaman, catalyst of 1970s health activism, has reissued the best writing on women’s health. Below, Seaman explains why she believed health activism is central to women’s rights.
Winter 2012 issue of Ms. Magazine - Bookmarks section (Great Reads for Winter 2012)
"Before her death, crusading journalist Seaman compiled this hefty collection of feminist writings on women’s health. Revisit the struggle for control of our bodies through the works of Shere Hite, Shulamith Firestone, Gloria Steinem, Phyllis Chesler and more."
2.15.12, Library Journal,
http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/02/books/nonfic/sci-tech/science-technology-reviews-february-15-2012/
“A valuable work for anyone interested in the women’s health movement and an essential resource for all collections.”
12.1.11, Booklist,
“Personal and communal, informative and affecting, this mammoth book of protest, progress, and regression eloquently confirms that the long, frustrating battle rages on to secure women access to respectful, high-quality, and unbiased health care.”

About the Author/作者介绍： 作家，妇女健康活动家，持续影响数百名年轻作家和近组织者近半个世纪，芭芭拉•希曼坚持通过显示自己争取妇女利益的愿望，来挑战牺牲妇女利益的医学和医药公司。她兴趣的宽度从十七和十八世纪早期的著作中妇女健康的著作，一直到最新的医疗争议。她为自己选择了一条特立独行的路径，她也常常赞赏她同事和门徒的成就，即使这些成就是通过一些更传统的渠道获得的。她在她所创造的这个领域坚定不移的承诺，在很多方面是令人惊叹的，至少她对妇女甚至男性的慷慨，他们或多或少地会参与到她的运动之中......(http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100732420&fa=author&Person_ID=108)

An author, women’s health activist, and energizing influence on hundreds of younger writers and organizers for nearly half a century, Barbara Seaman persistently challenged the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies by exposing their drive for profit at the expense of women. The breadth of her curiosity reached from early seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writings on women’s health right up to the latest medical controversies. She chose a maverick’s path for herself, but was always appreciative of the achievements of her colleagues and protégés even when these came through more conventional channels. The steadfastness of her commitment to a field of endeavor that she herself had created was remarkable in so many ways, not least for the generousness that seemed to come easily to her towards the women, and even some men, who in ways large and small would come to join her in the struggle.....(http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100732420&fa=author&Person_ID=108)

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