The Black Women's Health Book Speaking for Ourselves Second Edition,9781878067401

The Black Women's Health Book Speaking for Ourselves Second Edition

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9781878067401
ISBN10: 1878067400
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-01-11
Publisher(s): Seal Press
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Summary

More than fifty Black women write about the health issues that affect themnd their communities, and includes essays by Toni Morrison, bell hooks, andora Neale Hurston.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii(4)
Note to the Expanded Edition xvii
ONE: THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD 3(74)
Kate Rushin
In Answer to the Question: Have You Ever Considered Suicide
3(1)
Byllye Y. Avery
Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project
4(7)
Opal Palmer Adisa
Rocking in the Sun Light: Stress and Black Women
11(4)
Zora Neale Hurston
Prescriptions of Root Doctors
15(3)
Angela Y. Davis
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Politics of Black Women's Health
18(9)
Audre Lorde
Living with Cancer
27(11)
Janis Coombs Epps
On Cancer and Conjuring
38(6)
Melissa Blount
Surpassing Obstacles: Pioneering Black Women Physicians
44(8)
Vanessa Northington Gamble
On Becoming a Physician: A Dream Not Deferred
52(13)
Lorraine Bonner
Doctor's Journal: Healing from the Inside Out
65(12)
TWO: TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THIS 77(74)
Lucille Clifton
Roots
77(1)
Andrea R. Canaan
I Call Up Names: Facing Childhood Sexual Abuse
78(4)
Linda H. Hollies
A Daughter Survives Incest: A Retrospective Analysis
82(10)
Evelyn C. White
Love Don't Always Make It Right: Black Women and Domestic Violence
92(6)
Linda Janet Holmes
Thank You Jesus to Myself: The Life of a Traditional Black Midwife
98(9)
Faye Wattleton
Teenage Pregnancy: A Case for National Action
107(5)
Marsha R. Leslie
In a Family Way: Notes from a Teenage Black Mother
112(8)
Judy D. Simmons
Abortion: A Matter of Choice
120(8)
Marian Wright Edelman
The Black Family in America
128(23)
THREE: CLIMBING HIGHER MOUNTAINS 151(68)
Pamela Sherrod
Controlling Hypertension
151(5)
Forrestine A. Bragg
Sickle Cell Anemia and Me
156(4)
Vida Labrie Jones
Lupus and Black Women: Managing a Complex Chronic Disability
160(7)
K. Malaika Williams
The Best Foot Forward: A Black Woman Deals with Diabetes
167(5)
Andrea Lewis
Beverly Smith
Looking at the Total Picture: A Conversation with Health Activist Beverly Smith
172(10)
Beth Richie
AIDS: In Living Color
182(5)
Imani Harrington
Aid of AMERICA
187(2)
Gloria Lockett
Black Prostitutes and AIDS
189(4)
Sean Reynolds
Bar None: The Health of Incarcerated Black Women
193(5)
Jewelle L. Gomez
Barbara Smith
Taking the Home Out of Homophobia: Black Lesbian Health
198(16)
Evelyn C. White
A Tribute to a Sister: Pat Parker, 1944-1989
214(2)
Pat Parker
Massage (for Margaret)
216(3)
FOUR: ROCKA MY SOUL 219(72)
Bridgett M. Davis
Speaking of Grief: Today I Feel Real Low, I Hope You Understand
219(7)
Julia A. Boyd
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Feminist Therapy: Keys to Power
226(9)
Denise Alexander
One Determination: A Black Female Dentist Speaks
235(5)
Cheryl M. Killion
Service Without Subservience: Reflections of a Registered Nurse
240(11)
Sheila Battle
Moving Targets: Alcohol, Crack and Black Women
251(6)
Lulu F.
Black, Female and Sober
257(9)
Mary Lou Lee
Look for Guidance: How I Stopped Smoking
266(3)
Georgiana Arnold
Coming Home: One Black Woman's Journey to Health and Fitness
269(11)
Alice Walker
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
280(8)
Lucille Clifton
New Bones
288(3)
FIVE: SOON AND VERY SOON 291(72)
Evelyn C. White
The Fibroid Epidemic
291(8)
Francesca A. Jackson
Notes From a Non-Western Healer
299(6)
Jessica B. Harris
Celebrating Our Cuisine
305(5)
Joyce Gardner
The Magic of Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Your Baby
310(9)
Janet L. Mitchell
Patricia O. Loftman
Betty W. Carrington
HIV Infection, AIDS and Black Women
319(4)
Evelynn M. Hammonds
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Nurse Eunice Rivers and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
323(9)
bell hooks
Living to Love
332(10)
Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins
In Emergency
342(10)
Leora Myers
New Frontiers: Black Women and Menopause
352(4)
Michele Anderson
Tamara Ingram
Color, Color, Color
356(6)
Toni Morrison
We Flesh
362(1)
Resources 363(2)
Additional Reading 365(2)
Contributors 367(6)
Acknowledgements 373(2)
About the Editor 375

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