Our Bodies, Ourselves (179 page)

Sered, Susan, and Rushika Fernandopulle.
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Torrey, Trisha.
You Bet Your Life: The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes.
Minneapolis: Langdon Street Press, 2010.

Woloshin, Steven, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch.
Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Bass, Ellen.
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
.20th anniversary edition (revised, expanded). New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2008.

Chain of Change (chainofchange.net), a project of Beyond-media Education (beyondmedia.com) in Chicago, organizes youth activists to strategize how to end violence by exposing its roots through the creation of media.

Ensler, Eve.
The Vagina Monologues.
New York: Villard, 2008.

Friedman, Jaclyn, and Jessica Valenti, eds.
Yes Means Yes! Visons of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.
Berkeley: Seal Press, 2009.

Herman, Judith.
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terrorism.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Lehman, Carolyn.
Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Recover from Sexual Abuse.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Lloyd, Rachel.
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself.
New York: Harper, 2011.

“No!” 2004. Documentary by Aishah Shahidah about rape in African-American communities, notherapedocu mentary.org.

Orloff, Leslye, ed.
Empowering Survivors: Legal Rights of Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault for Advocates Working with Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault.
Washington, DC: Legal Momentum, 2010.

Potter, Hillary.
Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse.
New York: NYU Press, 2008.

Renzetti, Claire, Jeffrey Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen, eds.
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women
. Rev. ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2010.

Turning a Corner.
2008. This film tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systematic injustice and to promote needed reforms. Available through womenandprison.org/store, and beyondmedia.com/catalog.

Association of Occupational and Environmental Health Clinics: aoec.org. National network providing information and resources on patient care.

Association of Reproductive Health Professionals: arhp.org. Resources for health care providers and patients regarding toxic exposures and reproductive outcomes.

Beyond Pesticides: beyondpesticides.org. Resources and strategies on pesticide impacts and alternatives.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: SafeCosmetics.org. Provides information on detrimental health effects associated with cosmetics.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice: chej.org. Community and national strategies and resources.

The Centers for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: atsdr.cdc.gov. Toxic profiles, public health programs, community assessments, and links to national resources.

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment: health andenvironment.org. Fact sheets, working groups, and updated data on environment and reproductive health.

Committees on Occupational Safety and Health (COSH): nycosh.org (includes national listing of all COSH groups). Committees are located across the United States, focusing on occupational health education and advocacy, and can provide information and services for grievanced workers.

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: endocrinedisruption.com. Resources for health practioners and communities, including information on critical windows of development.

Environmental Defense Fund: scorecard.org. Community database (search by zip code), with detailed information on chemicals, health effects, and actions to take.

Environmental Working Group: ewg.org. Fact sheets and reports, with a focus on advocacy. See also the EWG Skin Deep project, cosmeticsdatabase.com.

Black Women's Health Imperative: blackwomenshealth.org. Takes action to eliminate health disparities for black women.

Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health: cpath.org. Conducts research and adds a public health voice to the debate on trade and sustainable development.

Equal Health Network: equalhealth.info. Brings together partners from public health, women's health, and the public to advocate for equitable, quality, universal, affordable—EQUAL—health care.

Levy, Barry S., and Victor W. Sidel.
War and Public Health.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

National Women's Health Network: nwhn.org. Improves the health of all women by providing a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support consumer decision making.

National Women's Law Center: nwlc.org. Champions laws and policies that work for women and families, including health care and reproductive rights, poverty and income support, education and Title IX, and more.

Population Reference Bureau,
The World's Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet:
prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2011/worlds-women-and-girls.aspx. Produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development through the IDEA project. Includes data for 181 countries on a variety of reproductive health and gender equality indicators. Copies are available to download at prb.org. To request free print copies, contact [email protected].

Shepard, Bonnie.
Running the Obstacle Course to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Lessons from Latin America.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Co., 2006.

Turshen, Meredeth.
Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: unwomen.org. A clearinghouse for United Nations initiatives.

Applied Research Center: arc.org. This racial justice think tank and home for media and activism also publishes Colorlines (colorlines.com), a daily news site offering award-winning reporting, analysis, and solutions to today's racial justice issues.

Baumgardner, Jennifer, Amy Richards, and Winona LaDuke.
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org. Works to protect freedom in the networked world and provides information on privacy, transparency, fair use, and free speech.

Martin, Courtney E.
Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010.

Morgan, Robin.
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right.
New York: Nation Books/Avalon Publishing, 2006.

Murray, Anne Firth.
From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice.
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2007.

Shirky, Clay.
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.
New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

Trigg, Mary K., ed.
Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change.
Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Turshen, Meredeth.
Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

NOTES

1
. David Landes, “Swedish Group Renames Hymen ‘Vaginal Corona,'” The Local, the local.se/23720/20091208.

2
. Angela Moreno, “In Amerika They Call Us Hermaphrodites,” in
Intersex in the Age of Ethics
, ed. A. D. Dreger (Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 1999), p. 137.

3
. G. C. Windham et al., “Age at Menarche in Relation to Maternal Use of Tobacco, Alcohol, Coffee, and Tea During Pregnancy,”
American Journal of Epidemiology
159 (2004): 862–71. Also: W. C. Chumlea et al., “Age at Menarche and Racial Comparisons in U.S. Girls,”
Pediatrics
111 (2003): 110–13.

4
. Sandra Steingraber, “The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls,” Breast Cancer Fund, 2007, breastcancerfund.org/media/publications/falling-age-of-puberty.

5
. Ani DiFranco, “Blood in the Boardroom,” © 1993 by Ani DiFranco/Righteous Babe Music.

6
. Andrew Adam Newman, “Rebelling Against the Commonly Evasive Feminine Care Ad,”
New York Times
, March 15, 2010.

7
. Simone N. Vigod, Lori E. Ross, and Meir Steiner, “Understanding and Treating Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder,”
Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics of North America
36 (2009): 916.

8
. K. J. Sales and H. N. Jabbour, “Cyclooxygenase Enzymes and Prostaglandins in Pathology of the Endometrium,”
Reproduction
126 (2003): 559–67.

9
. For more information on the misleading Yaz ads, see nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/11pill.html.

10
. European Medicines Agency, Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products, “Summary Information on Referral Opinion Following Arbitration Pursuant to Article 30 of Council Directive 2001/83/EC for Prozac and Associated Names,”
emea.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/referrals_prozac_30/wc50000.9147.pdf.

11
. Cathleen Morrow and Elizabeth H. Naumburg, “Dysmenorrhea,”
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
36 (2009): 19–32.

1
. Randi Hutter Epstein, “When Eating Disorders Strike in Midlife,”
New York Times
, July 13, 2009, nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-eating-disorders-ess.html.

2
. Timothy A. Judge and Daniel M. Cable, “When It Comes to Pay, Do the Thin Win? The Effect of Weight on Pay for Men and Women,”
Journal of Applied Psychology
96, no. 1 (2010): 95–112, timothy-judge.com/Judge%20and%20Cable%20%28JAP%202010%29.pdf.

3
. R. Gonzalez Rey and M. Parra, “The Beauty Advantage,”
Newsweek
, July 19, 2010, newsweek.com/feature/2010/the-beauty-advantage.html.

4
. Amanda Lenhart, “Teens and Sexting,” Pew Internet and American Life Project, December 15, 2009, pew internet.org/Reports/2009/Teens-and-Sexting.aspx.

5
. “Lucy,” “Transgender Women and Body Image,”
Lovely Lucy: My Life as a Transgender Woman in Academia
, lucyinacademia.blogspot.com/2010/04/trans gender-women-and-body-image.html.

6
. Kathy Peiss,
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
(New York: Henry Holt, 1998), pp. 41–42.

7
. Dr. S. Allen Counter, “Whitening Skin Can Be Deadly,”
Boston Globe
, December 16, 2003, p. C12.

8
. Ellen Gabler and Sam Roe, “Some Skin-Whitening Creams Contain Toxic Mercury, Testing Finds,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 18, 2010, chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-mercury-skin-creams-20100518,0,452 2094.story.

9
. Ellen Gabler and Sam Roe, “Mercury Content of Skin-lightening Creams,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 25, 2010, media.apps.chicagotribune.com/tables/skincreams.html.

10
. AFP, “Vaseline Launches Skin-Whitening Facebook India App,” July 13, 2010, google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g0O0kuPQsHSvuTd2t-YTrq1Rxaew.

11
. Jorge Rivas, “ELLE Cover Lightens the Most Beautiful Woman in the World,”
Colorlines
, January 12, 2011, colorlines.com/archives/2011/01/elle_cover_lightens_the_most_beautiful_woman_in_the_world.html.

12
. Gil Kaufman, “L'Oréal Denies Altering Beyoncé's Skin Color in Ad,” MTV.com, August 8, 2008, mtv.com/news/articles/1592434/loreal-denies-altering-beyonces-skin-color-ad.jhtml.

13
. R. Ritchie, “Black Women Say They Have Had Enough, They Are Going Natural,” WPTV.com, November 27, 2010, wptv.com/dpp/news/local_news/special_reports/Special-Report%3A-Going-Natural.

14
. Geoffrey Jones,
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 301.

15
. Hillary Chura, “On Cosmetics: Marketing Rules All,”
New York Times
, November 18, 2006.

16
. Vanessa Williams, “Dark and Lovely, Michelle,” The Root.com, January 13, 2009, theroot.com/views/dark-and-lovely-michelle.

17
. Mark Clothier. “P&G's Consumer Changes to He from She with Men's Line.” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 4, 2010. Accessed at businessweek.com/2010-06-04/pg-s-consumer-changes-to-he-from-she-with-men-s-line-update2-.html.