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Women's Health Books, Pamphlets & Journal Articles
ADOLESCENT WOMEN'S HEALTH
Bell, Ruth. Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships. New York, NY: Times Books. 1998.
Brindis, Claire. Building for the Future: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. JAMWA
54(3):129-132. Summer 1999.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Random House, 1997. Brumberg explores the changing face of female adolescence from Victorian times to the present.
Drill, E, McDonald, H and Odes, R, Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a Gurl. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.
Elster AB, Leavenberg P. Integrative comprehensive adolescent preventative services into routine medical care. Ped Clin North Am. 44:1365-1367, 1997.
Hagg, P, Voices of a Generation: Teenage Girls on Sex, School, and Self. A Report on Teen Girls from the American Association of University Women’s Sister to Sister
Summits. Washington, DC: AAUW, 1999.
Kirby, Douglas, No Easy Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 1997.
Lieberman D and J Feierman. Legal Issues in the Reproductive Health Care of Adolescents. JAMWA. 54(3):109-114. Summer 1999.
Sarigiani, PA et al, Prevention of High Risk Behaviors in Adolescent Women. J Adolesc Health. 25:109-119, 1999.
Whitehead BD and Ooms T, Goodbye to Girlhood: What’s Troubling Girls and What Can We Do About It. Washington, DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 1999.
Available for order online, $15.
Wolf, Naomi, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1997.
BODY IMAGE & EATING DISORDERS
Browne, Susan. With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women’s Anthology. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1985.
Brownell, Kelly D and Chris Fairburn, Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.
Freedman, Rita. Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves. New York: Harper and Row. 1990.
Kaplan AS, Garfinkel PE. Medical Issues and Eating Disorders. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1993.
Maine, Margo, Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies: An Activist’s Guide. Carlsbad, Canada: Gurze Books, 2000. A discussion of weightism, body image, dieting, and the media with strategies for change.
Putukian M. The female triad: Eating disorders, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. Med Clin North Am. 78:345-356. 1994.
Thompson, Becky. A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Wolf, Naomi, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
CAREER
Baker LC., Differences in earnings between male and female physicians. New England Journal of Medicine. 334(15):960-4, 1996 Apr 11.
Bowman, M. and D. Allen. Stress and Women Physicians. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Bradbury CL. King DK. Middleton RG., Female urologists: a growing population. Journal of Urology. 157(5):1854-6, 1997 May.
Cheifetz R., Experiences of women surgeons. Journal of Investigative Surgery. 11(6):355-71, 1998 Nov-Dec.
Cheifetz R., Women in surgery. Journal of Investigative Surgery. 11(5):295-6, 1998 Sep-Oct.
Dresler CM. Padgett DL. MacKinnon SE. Patterson GA., Experiences of women in cardiothoracic surgery. A gender comparison. Archives of Surgery. 131(11):1128-34; discussion 1135, 1996 Nov.
Elgin, S. Last Work on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1987. Tips on verbal and nonverbal communication for better interviews, meeting, and personal relationships.
Frank E. Brownstein M. Ephgrave K. Neumayer L., Characteristics of women surgeons in the United States. American Journal of Surgery. 176(3):244-50, 1998 Sep.
Frank E. Hudgins P., Academic versus non-academic women physicians: data from the Women Physicians’ Health Study. Academic Medicine. 74(5):553-6, 1999 May.
Frank E. McMurray JE. Linzer M. Elon L., Career satisfaction of US women physicians: results from the Women Physicians’ Health Study. Society of General Internal Medicine Career Satisfaction Study Group. Archives of Internal Medicine. 159(13):1417-26, 1999 Jul
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Heim, Pat, Ph.D. Hardball for Women. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1993. Pat Heim is a internationally known speaker and consultant in the areas of leadership, communication, team building, and gender differences for businesses nationwide.
Kirchstein RL., Women physicians -- good news and bad news. New England Journal of Medicine. 334(15):982-3, 1996 Apr 11.
Limacher MC. Zaher CA. Walsh MN. Wolf WJ. Douglas PS. Schwartz JB. Wright JS. BodycombeDP., The ACC professional life survey: career decisions of women and men in cardiology. A report of the Committee on Women in Cardiology. American College of Cardiology. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 32(3):827-35, 1998 Sep.
Mansfield A., George Adlington Syme Oration. Surgery: a suitable career for women? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Surgery. 66(12):787-90, 1996 Dec.
Schaller JG. Kaplan SH., The future of women in pediatrics. Pediatric Annals. 28(3):190-3, 1999 Mar.
Showalter E., Improving the position of women in medicine. BMJ. 318(7176):71-2, 1999 Jan 9.
Simon MA., Racial, ethnic, and gender diversity and the resident operative experience. How can the Academic Orthopaedic Society shape the future of orthopaedic surgery?.
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research. (360):253-9, 1999 Mar.
Waalen J., Women in medicine: bringing gender issues to the fore. JAMA. 277(17):1404, 1997 May 7.
Wilson JA., Training women for surgical leadership. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 41(3):212-4, 1996 Jun.
CAREER/ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Aisenbert, N. and M. Harrington. Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. Based on more than 60 interviews, a discussion
of women’s struggle to gain a foothold in academic professions.
Anonymous, AAMC project committee on increasing women’s leadership in academic medicine. Academic Medicine. 71(7):801-11, 1996 Jul.
Benz EJ Jr. Clayton CP. Costa ST., Increasing academic internal medicine’s investment in female faculty. American Journal of Medicine. 105(6):459-63, 1998 Dec.
Bickel, Jane. Women in Academic Medicine. JAMWA, 55(1):10-12. Winter 2000.
Carr, Phyllis L et al. Faculty Perceptions of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. 132: 889-896, 2000.
Carr, PL et al, Relation of Family Responsibilities and Gender to the Productivity and Career Satisfaction of Medical Faculty. Annals of Internal Medicine. 129:532-538. 1 October 1998.
Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1999.
Heid IM. O’Fallon JR. Schwenk NM. Gabriel SE., Increasing the proportion of women in academic medicine: one institution’s response. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 74(2):113-9, 1999 Feb.
Nonnemaker, Lynn. Women Physicians in Academic Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine. 342(6):399-405, 2000 Feb 10.
Schaller JG., Women in academic pediatrics. Pediatric Annals. 28(3):184-9, 1999 Mar.
Seltzer VL., Changes and challenges for women in academic obstetrics and gynecology.
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 180(4):837-48, 1999 Apr.
Tesch VJ, Wood HM, Helwig AL, Nattinger AB. Promotion of Women Physicians in Academic Medicine: Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? JAMA. 273:1022, 1995.
CAREER/FAMILY
Carnes M., Balancing family and career: advice from the trenches [see comments]. Annals of Internal Medicine. 125(7):618-20, 1996 Oct 1.
Laine, C., On Being Dr. Mom. Annals of Internal Medicine. 129:579-580. 1 October 1998.
Law JK., Starting a family in medical school. JAMA. 227(9):767, 1997 Mar 5.
Levison W, Tolle SW, Lewis C., Women in Academic Medicine: Combining Career and Family. NEJM. 321(22):1511-17, 1989.
MacKinnon, SE and Mizgala, CL, Pregnancy and Plastic Surgery Residency.
Miller NH. Miller DJ. Chism M., Breastfeeding practices among resident physicians. Pediatrics. 98(3 Pt 1):434-7, 1996 Sep.
Potee RA. Gerber AJ. Ickovics JR., Medicine and motherhood: shifting trends among female physicians from 1922 to 1999. Academic Medicine. 74(8):911-9, 1999 Aug.
GENDER-BASED AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Phillips SP, Schneider MS. Sexual Harassment of Female Doctors by Patients. NEJM. 329:1936-1939, 1993.
Charney DA, Russell RC. An overview of sexual harassment. Am J Psychol. 151:1, 1994.
Frank E. Brogan D. Schiffman M., Prevalence and correlates of harassment among US women physicians. Archives of Internal Medicine. 158(4):352-8, 1998 Feb 23.
LESBIAN/BISEXUAL HEALTH
Brogan DJ. Frank E. Elon L. Sivanesan SP. O’Hanlan KA, Harassment of lesbians as medical students and physicians. JAMA. 282(13):1290, 1292, 1999 Oct 6.
Clausen J, Duberman M. Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
Committee on Lesbian Health Research Priorities, Institute of Medicine, Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future. Washington: National Academy Press, 1999.
Dean, Laura et at, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns. Conference Edition: 2000
The full text of this report is available from the GLMA web site.
Harrison AE. Comprehensive care of lesbian and gay patients and families. Prim Care. 23:31-46, 1996.
Huitchins, Loraine. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Alyson Publications, 1991.
Lobel, Kerry. Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering. Seattle: Seal Press, 1986.
Plumb M, Rochman S, White J. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Lesbian Health Public Policy Advocacy. JAMWA. 54(1):21-25. Winter 1999.
Ponticelli, Christy M. (ed), Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care: opening doors. New York: Haworth Press, 1998.
Rankow EJ. Lesbian health issues for the primary care provider. J Fam Pract. 40:486-493, 1995.
Simkin, RJ, Not all your patients are straight. CMAJ 1998;159:370-5.
White, J, and Martinez, MC, eds, The Lesbian Health Book: Caring for Ourselves. Seattle, WA: Seal press, 1997.
MENTORING
Anderson EM, Shannon EG. Towards a conceptualization of mentoring. J Teacher Educ. 39(1):38-42. 1988.
Geiger-Dumond AH, Boyle SK. Mentoring: A practitioner’s guide. Training and Development. 49(3):51-55. 1995.
Knox PI, McGovern TV. Mentoring Women in Academia. Teaching Psychology. 15(1):39-41. 1988.
Kram KE. Phases of the Mentoring Relationship. Academic Management Rev. 26:608-25. 1983.
Levinson W, Kaufman K, Clark B, Tolle SW. Mentors and Role Models for Women in Academic Medicine. West J Med. 154(4):423-26.1991.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & POLICY
Glasier A. Emergency postcoital contraceptive. NEJM. 337:1058-1064, 1997.
Hatcher, R, Contraceptive Technology. Ardent Media: 1998. Considered "the bible" of contraception, this book provides extensive data and clinical information on preventing pregnancy. A new edition is released every 2 years.
Jones, Bonnie Scott and Simon Heller. Providing Medical Abortion: Legal Issues of Relevance to Providers. JAMWA 5(3 Suppl):145-150. 2000. This entire JAMWA supplement is
dedicated to the discussion of medical abortion.
McGregor, Deborah Kuhn. From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. The author discusses the history of the specialty, including the exploitation of racial minorities and poor women.
Morgan, Lynn M. & Meredith Michaels, Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. An anthology of essays on changing attitudes toward the fetus and their
implications in the abortion debate.
Petchesky, Rosalind and Karen Judd. Negotiating Reproductive Rights. London: Zed Books, 1998.
Reagan, Leslie J, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. An excellent primer on the history
of abortion in the United States.
Schneider, Karen ed, Choices: Women Speak Out About Abortion. Washington, DC: The NARAL Foundation, 1997.
Produced for the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Choices features narratives from women who chose to terminate their pregnancies, before and after legal abortion. The "Choice for America" web site includes the full text of the book, along with a multimedia exploration of reproductive choice.
Stanworth, M. Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood, and Medicine. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN. 1987.
Stotland, Nada Logan, Abortion: Facts and Feelings: A Handbook for Women and the People Who Care About Them. American Psychiatric Press, 1998.
Wattleton, Faye, Life on the Line. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. In this autobiography, Wattleton describes her experiences as a nurse-midwife and the first African-American president of
Planned Parenthood, from 1978-1992.
RESIDENCY PLANNING
ACOG, Council on Residency Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Washington, DC.
Career planning information for OB/GYN residency.
Albers LM., Issues of women in residency and early careers. Pediatric Annals. 28(3):171-3, 1999 Mar.
Chow KH., Maternal health and leave policies during medical training. JAMA. 277(9):766, 769, 1997 Mar 5.
National Women’s Health Information Center, Directory of Residency and Fellowship Programs in Women’s Health. Washington, DC: HHS.
Descriptions of residency and fellowship programs in women’s health.
Office of Women’s Health, Recommendations for a Successful Mentoring Program. Washington, DC: HHS.
Schur E. Nicolette J., Medical students and the future of women’s health. JAMA. 277(17):1406-7, 1997 May 7.
Wilson JA. Boulter PS., Targeting medical students to promote women in surgery. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 42(4):217-8, 1997 Aug.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Adams, Caren and Jennifer Fay. Free of the Shadows: Recovering From Sexual Violence. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications. 1989.
Alpert EJ, Cohen S. Educating the Nations Physicians about Family Violence and Abuse. Academic Medicine. 72(Suppl 1) 113 pages, 1997. Describes how educational initiatives about family violence can be implemented in medical school and residency curricula.
Benedict, Helen. Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Browne, Angela, When Battered Women Kill. New York: The Free Press, 1987.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Davis, Angela, Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
Delahunta EA. Hidden trauma: The mostly missed diagnosis of domestic violence. Am J Emerg Med. 13:74-76, 1995.
Dunn SF, Gilchrist VJ. Sexual Assault. Prim Care. 20:359-373, 1993.
Eisenstat S, Bancroft L. Domestic Violence. NEJM. 341: 886-892. 1999 September.
Fairstein, Linda. Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape. New York: Berkley Publishing, 1995.
Hampton HL. Care of the woman who has been raped. NEJM. 332:234-237, 1995.
Heinrich L. Care of the female rape victim. Nurs Pract 12:9-27, 1987.
LaViolette, Alyce and Ola Barnett. It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay. Sage Publications, 2000.
Liebschutz J, Frayne S, and Saxon G. Domestic Violence: A Physician’s Guide. ISBN# 1-930513-11-9.
Linden, Judith A. Sexual Assault. Emerg Clin North Am, 17(3): 685-697, 1999 August.
McCauley J, Yurk RA, Jencles MW, Ford DE. Inside "Pandora’s Box": Abused Women’s Experience with Clinicians and Health Services. J Gen Intern Med. 13: 549-555; 1998.
Mehta P, Dandrea LA. The Battered Woman. Am Fam Physician. 37:193-199, 1988.
Moscarello R. Psychological management of victims of sexual assault. Can J Psychiatr. 35:25-30, 1990.
Muelleman RL, Lenaghan PA, Pakiser RA. Battered Women: Injury Locations and Types. Ann Emerg Med. 28:486-492, 1996, November.
Parrot, Andrea and Laurie Bechhofer, eds. Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Crime. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1991.
Petter LM, Whitehill DL. Management of female sexual assault. Am Fam Phys. 58:920-926, 1998.
Young WW, Brachen AC, Goddard MA, et al. Sexual Assault: Review of National Model Protocol for Forensic and Medical Evaluation. Obstet Gynecol. 80: 878-883, 1992.
WOMEN'S BODIES
Angier, Natalie, Women: An Intimate Geography. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1999. Angier, a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer, writes beautifully about gender, biology, and the uniqueness
of women.
Ensler, Eve, The Vagina Monologues. New York: Villard Books, 1998.
Houppert, Karen, The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation. New York: FSG, 1999.
Spadola, Meema, Breasts: Our most public private parts. Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, 1998.
White G, Jantos M. Sexual behavior changes with vulvar vestibulitis syndrome. J Reprod
Med. 43:783-789, 1998.
Yalom, Marilyn, A History of the Breast. New York: Random House, 1997. A history of the
breast, from Paleolithic goddesses to contemporary feminists.
Zuckerman DM. The Need to Improve Informed Consent for Breast Cancer Patients.
JAMWA 55(5): 285-89. Fall 2000.
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Baron-Faust, Rita, Being Female: What Every Woman Should Know About Gynecological Health. Quill: 1999.
Casper, Regina, Women’s Health: Hormones, Emotions and Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Charney, Pamela, Coronary Artery Disease in Women: What All Physicians Need to Know. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1999.
Haseltine, Florence P., et al, Women’s Health Research: A Medical and Policy Primer. Washington DC: Health Press International, 1997.
Healy, Bernardine, A New Prescription for Women’s Health: Getting the Best Medical Care in a Man’s World. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
Heim LJ, Brunsell SC. Heart Disease in Women. Primary Care. 27(3): 741-763. Sept. 2000.
Johnson, B, Johnson C, Murray J, Apgar B. Women’s Health Care Handbook 2nd Edition. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc, 2000.
Krasnoff, Margo J. Resources for Teaching About Women’s Health. Academic Medicine. 75(11): 1087-1094, 2000 November. This entire issue of Academic Medicine is dedicated to Women’s
Health Education and curricular reform.
Kundenchuck PJ, Maynard C, Martin JS et al. Comparison of presentation, treatment, and outcome of acute myocardial infarction in men versus women. Am J Cardiol. 78:9, 1996.
Laurence, Leslie and Beth Weinhouse, Outrageous Practices: How Gender Bias Threatens Women’s Health. Rutgers University Press: 1997.
Messing, Karen. One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998.
Parrott, Roxanne L. and C.M. Condit, Evaluating Women’s Health Messages: A Resource Book. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.
Slupik, Romona I., ed, American Medical Association Complete Guide to Women’s Health. New York: Random House, 1996.
Wallis, Lila et al. Textbook of Women’s Health. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott-Raven, 1998. A well written, comprehensive guide to women’s health.
Walsh, M. The Psychology of Women: Ongoing Debates. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1987. Essays on the psychology of women, including such topics as hormone therapy, violence,
lesbianism, abortion, and child development.
Weisman, Carol. Women’s Health Care: Activist Tradition and Institutional Change. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. A comprehensive account covering historical
material, an analysis of health care policy and ideas for future advocacy.
White, Evelyn. A Black Women’s Health Book. The Seal Press. 1990.
WOMEN IN MEDICINE: HISTORY
Abrams, R. Send us a Lady Physician: Women Doctors in America, 1835-1920. New York: WW Norton, 1985. A collection of essays and photographs of the history of women in American medicine.
Achterberg, Jeanne, Woman as Healer. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1991. A history of women in Western healing traditions.
Brooke, Elisabeth. Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1997.
Ferraris ZA. Ferraris VA., The women of Salerno: contribution to the origins of surgery from medieval Italy. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 64(6):1855-7, 1997 Dec.
Furst, Lilian ed, Women Healers & Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill. Lexington, KY: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Leavitt, J. Women and Health in America. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
Levin, B. Women and Medicine: Pioneers Meeting the Challenge! Lincoln, NE: Media Publishing, 1988.
Lightfoot, S. Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988.
Logan, O. and K. Clark. Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story. New York, NY: EP Dutton, 1989.
Marantz, RM, Pomerlean, CS, and Fenichel, CH, In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Nine oral histories of women
physicians from 1903 to the present, including essays on the history of women physicians.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch, Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub Group, 1998.
Peitzman, Steven J, A New and Untried Course: Woman’s Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Sirridge MS. Pfannenstiel BR., Daughters of Aesculapius: a selected bibliography of auto-biographies of women medical school graduates 1849-1920. Literature & Medicine. 15(2):200-16, 1996 Fall.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, A Midwife’s Tale. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Pulitzer Prize winning biography of an 18th century Maine midwife.
Wertz, Richard W. & Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying-In: A history of Childbirth in America. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989.
WOMEN PHYSICIANS
Alvord, Lori Arriso and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1999.
Cassell, Joan, The Woman in the Surgeon’s Body. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Conley, Frances, MD. Walking out on the Boys. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York, NY. 1998. Dr. Conley describes her experience as the first tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the USA at
Stanford U. and her resignation to protest the medical school’s gender discrimination.
Dresler CM, Padgett DL, MacKinnon SE, Patterson GA. Experiences of Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Gender Comparison. Arch Surg. 131(11):1128-35, 1996.
Harrison, Michelle. A Woman in Residence. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. A single parent and physician describes her residency in OB-GYN after several years in family practice, revealing the need
for reform in women’s health care.
Klass, Perri. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure. New York: Signet Books, 1988. Dr. Klass writes with great insight about her experiences in medical school. This book details her four years as a medical student and mother at Harvard.
Lerner Rothman, Ellen, MD. White Coat - Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1999. Dr. Rothman gives a vivid account of her four years at Harvard Medical School.
Remen, Rachel Naomi. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal. New York: Riverhead Books. 1996.
WOMEN'S STUDIES
Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class. New York, NY: Vintage Books. 1993.
Ehrenreich, Barbara & Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice
to Women. New York: Doubleday, 1978. From paternalistic physicians to fashion magazines, a look at what "the experts" have been telling America’s women.
Faludi, Susan, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Hooks, Bell. Ain’t I a Woman? Boston, MA: South End Press. 1981.
Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. This Bridge Called My Back. Watertown: Persephone Press, 1981. A collection of feminist writings by women of color.
Schiebinger, Londa. Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1999.
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