For Women Only!: Your Guide to Health Empowerment [Paperback]

Gary Null (Author), Barbara Seaman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2001

Both a reference work and a health guide, For Women Only! joins together hands-on advice from the country's leading health practicioners with essays, interviews, anc commentary by leading thinkers, activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists. Contributors include the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Germaine Greer, Shere Hite, Erica Jong, the National Black Women's Health Project, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, and Naomi Wolf, among many others.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Alternative health practitioner Null joins women's health advocate Seaman in a book that is really a combination of two separate works. Null's part offers alternative therapies for a variety of conditions: addiction, diabetes, menopause, etc. These treatments are complementary to rather than replacements for conventional medicine. An appendix contains brief descriptions of the therapies and a directory of practitioners. There is some new material here, but much is from Null's The Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (LJ 1/97). The strongest and most interesting section of For Women Only! is an anthology of 200 classic readings on various aspects of women's health, compiled by Seaman. Authors such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Germaine Greer, Susan Love, and Naomi Wolfe discuss activism, sexuality, body image, motherhood, and gender medicine. Brief biographies of the contributors appear at the end of the book. This work should have been published as two separate volumes. Still, it is highly recommended for the inspiring history of the women's health movement in Seaman's section. A valuable addition to women's studies, health sciences, academic, and large public library collections.
-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

Null and Seaman assert that to "care for one's body, one needs reliable information, but one also needs the confidence--the discernment--to distinguish the reliable and authentic from the sales pitch." The first 600 pages of this 1500-page tome offer alternative practitioner Null's thoughts on the causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of conditions and illnesses, from addiction and arthritis to violence and varicose veins. The remainder is Seaman's history of the women's health movement, featuring selections from many familiar feminist writers. Null's is the traditional section, but readers who have seen his PBS programs will correctly anticipate lists of phytochemicals and other nutritional recommendations. Seaman's "Health Empowerment for Women" starts with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women shamans, then surveys the battles the women's health movement faced, and examines specific "body parts" in terms of how feminism changed attitudes and behaviors. The section "Still Taking Our Bodies Back" covers current movements, such as breast cancer activism, and supplies suggestions on what feminism will look like in the twenty-first century. Mary Carroll --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1600 pages
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press (September 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583222782
• ISBN-13: 978-1583222782
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,208,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, November 29, 1999

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Bob Marty (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment (Hardcover)

This book is astounding. I had no idea the scope and depth that Gary Null scholarship would have in relationship to my own health issues. It's so completely easy to use and helpful. I found more information on breast cancer than anywhere else including all the other books I've read. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Many Options, January 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment (Hardcover)

"For Women Only" contains a wealth of information for women like myself who want to know their options.

When I face health problems or other dilemmas, I do not take the first solution presented because I have found by hard experience that many of the answers that the so-called experts offer do not work. I am grateful to the authors of this book for presenting so many valuable alternatives.

48 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment, December 2, 1999

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Peter (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Women Only! Your Guide to Health Empowerment (Hardcover)

Thank you, Dr. Null, for holistically addressing the health concerns that are predominant in women. The politics behind female healthcare are shocking and frightening. You put it all into perspective within these covers. You also saved me from the quandary of what to buy all the women in my family for Christmas. You're insightful and have a wealth of helpful information. Bless you.