For Women Only!: Your Guide to Health Empowerment » (Reprint)

Bestselling health and nutrition author Gary Null is one of America's most popular health and fitness writers. Dr. Null has a Ph.D. in Nutrition and he is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of medical articles. He is also the host of a popular daily radio show on VoiceAmerica. Barbara Seaman has been on the forefront of the women's health movement since the publication of her groundbreaking Doctor's Case Against the Pill in 1969. It exposed the risks of prescribing untested birth control pills to women and was the basis of Senate hearings resulting in the FDA to require informational inserts with oral contraceptives and other medicines.

In For Women Only!, authors Gary Null and Barbara Seaman address women s health both from curative/preventive and historical/contextual perspectives. The first half of the book discusses a wide range of concerns, from addiction and sexual abuse to menopause and mental health, and offers an arsenal of the most effective or promising strategies for preventing, coping with, or curing them. The second half takes an inspirational approach. Drawing on the writings of Sojourner Truth, Angela Davis, Erica Jong, and many others, the book puts women s medicine in perspective, covering topics ranging from the early history of women as healers to contemporary activism, from self-help gynecology and motherhood to women s health in the 21st century. Contributors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf, and many others.