Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas
Our Bodies, Our Lives Spanish Translation/Adaptation Boston Women’s Health Book Collective Siete Cuentos/Seven Stories Press May 2000
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Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas is the first Spanish-language cultural adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves for Latina women. Recognizing that it was essential for Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas to reflect the plurality of cultures, politics and economics characteristic of Latinas throughout the Americas, Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (BWHBC), initiated a collaboration with 19 women’s health groups from 11 countries in Central, North and South America, and the Caribbean. Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas is the fruit of four years of collaborative effort during which participating groups, already familiar with the 1977 edition of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas, developed revised chapters based upon content of the 1992 and 1998 English language editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas, like Our Bodies, Ourselves, honors the personal stories of individual women. Its content and organization, however, acknowledge that Latina perspectives on health and sexuality differ significantly from those expressed within the pages of the English-language book. Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas recognizes that issues of cultural identity, politics, and living life between Latin American and US worlds informs the health of Latina women.
We hope the publication of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas and the dissemination of Latina-directed health information will provide a milestone opportunity for outreach, prevention awareness, and network-building in Spanish-speaking communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Read a comparison of NCNV and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
"This book continues to be a must-see reference on very many topics, and will certainly be very useful to all of us..." Denise Paiewonsky, Centro de Estudios de Genero, Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo
"Nuestros Cuerpos Nuestras Vidas ... contents are excellent, its presentation is very good and its language is accessible. Thank you very much." Ana Santiago, Documentation Services Area Coordinator
"As the largest sheltering program in New England for battered women and their children, we recognize the importance of a resource such as Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas. Our staff as well as the women we serve will greatly benefit from this publication in that it provides important health information in such an empowering format." Debra J. Robbin, Director of Education & Training Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
"An effective and unprecedented effort that will prove equally useful for a woman living in Mexico as for a girl in secondary school in Colombia, or a grandmother who has immigrated an now works in the United States." El Puente Latino
A ‘Rich, Multivocal Collective Text’ is an in-depth review of NCNV by Ana Ortiz.
US-based collaborators and contributors
Maria Morison Aguiar Gabriela Canepa Mayra Canetti Elizabeth MacMahon Herrera Rosie Muñoz López Verónica Nielsen-Vilar Ester Shapiro Maria Laura Skinner
Latin American Collaborators and Contributors
AVESA, Venezuela Casa de la Mujer, Colombia Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir, México CETAAR, Argentina Centro de Apoyo Aquelarre, República Dominicana Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Argentina Centro Mujer y Sociedad, Perú CIDHAL, México CLADEM, Bolivia Claudia Adriasola-Boraiko, Chile Comité Nacional de Defensa de los Derechos Reproductivos, Bolivia Comité Regional La Corriente, Nicaragua Con-inspirando, Revista Latinoamericana de Ecofeminismo, Espiritualidad y Teología, Chile Feministas en Marcha, Puerto Rico Flora Tristán Centro de la Mujer, Perú Foro por los Derechos Reproductivos, Argentina Fundación Para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer, Argentina Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida, A.C., GIRE, México Grupo de Mujeres de San Cristóbal de las Casas, México Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva, Chile ISIS Internacional Santiago, Chile Modemujer, México Movimiento Manuela Ramos, Perú Mujer Ahora (Espacio Feminista de Salud), Uruguay Profamilia, Bolivia Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, Chile Rede Nacional Feminista de Saúde e Direitos Reproductivos, Brasil SIPAM, México, D.F. Taller Salud, Puerto Rico
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Knowledge is Power Introduction 1. International Perspectives 2. The Politics of Women’s Health and Health Care System 3. How We Can Organize for Change 4. Introduction to Online Women’s Health Resources
Part Two: Taking Care of Our Health Introduction 5. Holistic Health and Cultural Traditions of Healing 6. Body Image 7. Food 8. Women in Motion 9. Mental Health 10. Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs and Other Mood-Altering Drugs 11. Violence Against Women 12. Environmental and Occupational Health 13. Women Growing Older
Part Three: Relationships and Sexuality Introduction 14. Sexuality 15. Working Toward Mutuality 16. Romantic Relationships with Other Women
Part Four: Health and Reproductive Rights Introduction 17. Understanding Our Bodies: Sexual Anatomy and Physiology of Sexuality and Reproduction 18. Birth Control 19. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 20. HIV, AIDS, and Women 21. Unplanned Pregnancies: Finding Out You’re Pregnant and Deciding What to Do 22. Abortion 23. New Reproductive Technologies 24. Common and Uncommon Diseases
Part Five: Maternity Introduction 25. Pregnancy 26. Childbirth 27. Postpartum 28. Child-bearing Loss, Infertility, and Adoption
For more information, please contact:
Our Bodies Ourselves 5 Upland Road #3 Cambridge, MA 02140 617-245-0200 [email protected]
Seven Stories Press 140 Watts Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 226-8760 [email protected]
CLINIC DISCOUNT: Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas is available to clinics and other groups providing health-counseling services at $7.20 per paperback copy plus shipping. Orders must be for 12 or more copies with payment (check or major credit card) and must include a document verifying health service status and your IRS license number for tax exemption. The document must be a copy of a statement filed with a state or federal agency indicating health services or health education as a primary purpose of your group. To place your order and/or for details, contact Seven Stories Press, 212-226-8760.
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