Asetoyer, Charon M.A. (editor). Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle. .
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center presents this book to encourage Native women to take charge of their own health, and to offer all women a comprehensive new vision of health care choices and information.

Benson, Lorri Antosz and Taryn Leigh Benson. Distorted.
In an epidemic culture of disordered eating, this is the first book to provide both sides of the story: alternating mother-daughter perspectives on one teens battle with anorexia and bulimia, examining the nitty-gritty relationship dynamics and the many manipulative nuances that personify this misunderstood disease.

Berry, Dawn Bradley. The Domestic Violence Sourcebook
A comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence--including historical, psychological, social, familial, and legal issues--this well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.

The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition For a New Era With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being.Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health from definitive information from today's leading experts to personal stories from other women just like them. Together with its companion website (www.ourbodiesourselves.org), Our Bodies, Ourselves is a one-stop resource for women of all generations. Plus: The rearranged food pyramid, a chapter about sexual orientation and gender identity, advice for making safer sex more fun, the latest on breast-feeding, support for women experiencing pregnancy loss, and a section devoted to getting the best care in today's complicated health care system.

The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves For the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the decisions that will shape their health -- and their lives -- from living a healthy life, to relationships and sexuality, to child-bearing, growing older, dealing with the medical system, and organizing for change. This is a book for women of all generations to use, to rely on, and to share with others.

The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
For years Our Bodies, Ourselves has provided readers with indispensable information on women's health and sexuality. Now we have brought the same knowledge and perspective to our new book on childbirth.By drawing on the most accurate research, the personal experiences of many individual women, and the advice of midwives, physicians, and other health care providers, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth will help you navigate the many choices you face during this exciting and challenging time.

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with inner beauty to our modern focus on outward appearance--in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary project.

Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
This book explores the links between appearance and sexuality, and looks at how race, class and economics help shape images of beauty. Included are interviews with and photographs of women who share their own ‘beauty secrets’.

Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders
This new edition provides the most up-to-date information on the possible underlying causes of eating disorders and their treatments, as well as information on recognizing disordered eating patterns in yourself or a loved one. A complete overview of treatment options, including group therapy, one-on-one counseling, the uses of medication, and inpatient treatment, is provided, along with a thorough listing of treatment centers and other resources around the country.

Dipion, Vicki Edgson and Ian Marter Dipion. The Food Doctor: Healing Foods for Mind and Body.
Now fully revised and updated, this edition of the ever-popular guide to eating well has all the latest research, new and inspiring recipes, and an entire chapter on eating for one’s individual metabolic body type and lifestyle. Written by two nutritionists, the pages are packed with nutrition advice, case studies, and food cures. Find simple foods with amazing healing properties; check out the definitive list of the top 100 foods for health, vitality and happiness.

Doress, Paula Brown, Diana Laskin Siegal, The Midlife, Older Women Book Project. Ourselves, Growing Older
Following in the ground-breaking tradition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin Siegel address the needs of the growing number of women over the age of forty. This new and revised edition of the best-selling Ourselves, Growing Older includes new chapters on menopause and reform of the medical care system as well as extensive updates on housing issues, HIV/AIDS, cosmetic surgery, and breast cancer.

Fraser, Laura. Losing it: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry
A reformed dieter and a former bulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash. In this meticulously researched journey through Dietland, Fraser gives the inside scoop on diet drugs, including the controversial phen/fen, diet gurus Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, and Dean Ornish, commercial weight loss centers, including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, and weight loss products like thigh creams and diet cookies

Gaesser, Glenn. Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
In this authoritative, easy-to-read book, Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. He explains that it is the fat in your diet — not your weight — that is harmful, and presents scientific evidence of the benefits of body fat. In addition, Gaesser presents a “20/20 program” for achieving optimal health and metabolic fitness through 20 minutes of daily moderate exercise and a complex-carbohydrate eating plan. This edition includes a new introduction and updated research. “Challenges the common beliefs that ‘thin is best’ and ‘weight loss improves health.

Goodman, W. Charisse. The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America
This intelligent, political, feminist treatise explores the all-pervasive prejudice against fat women. It is about shattering the stereotypes, raising awareness about harassment, and asserting the truth that no one has the right to discriminate against anyone based on their size! Goodman exposes our culture’s widely accepted hatred of fat women, from the "health police" who feel that it is their right to approach and criticize strangers about their weight, health, or appearance, to the mass media who perpetuate inappropriate standards of beauty. The Invisible Woman also discusses weight obsession, false assumptions about diet and exercise, the fear and loathing of fat women as sexual beings, disturbing similarities between the aesthetic ideals of the Nazis and America’s quiet extermination of heavy women, and an open letter to men who think fat women are ugly.

Gottesman, Jane. Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
The extraordinary collection of photographs and rich personal stories that make up Game Face documents the tremendous impact that sports has on the daily lives of millions of girls and women. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer to the question at the heart of Game Face: What do girls and women look like, freed from traditional feminine contraints, using their bodies in joyful and empowering ways? When Title IX was passed in 1972, only one out of twenty-seven school-age girls played sports. Now one in three does. Yet their expanding involvement in sports is still laregely overlooked by the media, and as the consequence, millions of young female athletes crave not only role models, but an authentic and appealing reflection of their own athleticism. Gottesman book honors both our top female athletes and the everyday girls and women whose self-image is strengthened through athletic participation.

Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted". Martin Scorsese's company, Carpo Productions, has purchased movie rights to Gottlieb's journal.

Jarrell, Donna and Sukrungruang Ira. What Are You Looking At?: The First Fat Fiction Anthology.
Jarrell and Sukrungruang offer an eclectic anthology of thirty stories and poems that foregrounds fat bodies. This collection is particularly refreshing given the recent backlash against fat acceptance, which has resulted in the discontinuation of fat-centric magazines, the closing of plus-size clothing stores, and popular culture's continuing love affair with ever-smaller actors and models.

Kater, Kathy. Real Kids Come in All Sizes: 10 Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Self Esteem.
At a time when they should feel secure in their body’s growth, too many American children become anxious about size and weight and begin to eat in ways that contribute to the very problems they hope to avoid. Obesity, negative body image, and eating disorders are extremely difficult to reverse once established, and can be devastating to the self-esteem of developing bodies and egos.Long overdue, Real Kids Come in All Sizes challenges the toxic myths that promote body-image and weight concerns in our culture.

Maine, Margo, PhD. and Joe Kelly. The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect.
In the relatively short history of eating and body image disorders treatment, the overwhelming majority of patients have been teenage girls and young women. But now, clinical psychologists like Dr. Margo Maine are treating increasing numbers of women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond suffering from disordered eating or the preoccupation with achieving a perfect body.This unique, jargon-free guide helps women and their loved ones understand these obsessions, what lies behind them, and how to overcome them!

Malkan, Stacy. Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
Have you ever stopped to think about what exactly are all of those ingredients that make up your favorite beauty products you are putting on your skin? Stacy Malkan has, and in her book Not Just a Pretty Face, She uncovers why the Beauty Industry is allowed to do what they do and the negative consequences of using products that are endlessly marketed at girls, teens, and woman. Malkan also provides what can be done to combat the beauty industry and protect ourselves.

Manheim, Camryn. Wake Up, I’m Fat!
This memoir is by turns funny ("If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions") and excruciating. It helps that the material was honed in a one-woman show that sold out at New York's big-deal Public Theater, but the subject matter was strange and interesting in the first place. Manheim could not possibly be a less likely candidate for artistic and commercial success on TV. Born Debi Manheim in Peoria, the very metaphor for mainstream culture, Manheim re-created herself as a dozen earringed California biker chick, a Renaissance Faire wench, a protester who helped drive the Miss California Pageant out of Santa Cruz, and one of 28 actors in America accepted at NYU's exclusive graduate school. In her book, Manheim gets even with her cruel, fat-bashing teachers; credits the director who gave her, her first ingénue lead role (Tony Kushner, who cast her in Fen); and tells how the same temper that got her booted from school and arrested also won her the TV role that made her name.

Molnar, Judy. You Don't Have to be Thin to Win.
One of the best and practical books on fitness and health. This book is the recommended book by DietBuddies. 'You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win' is Judy's special recipe for health and fitness. She shows you everything from how to buy sneakers and how to find a way to move that works for your body and your time constraints to how to get through a grocery store and come out with foods that will make you a winner. And Judy is inspiring: Even if you feel that getting your body in shape is impossible, her story and many of the poignant success stories from her work will get you off the couch and moving. It will make a great gift for those struggling to stay healthy.

Moore, Judith. Fat Girl: A True Story.
A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest and compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer.For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M. F. K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore's deep longing for a family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.

Nichter, Mimi. Fat Talk:What Girls and their Parents Say About Dieting.
Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls--lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina--about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls' sense of self.

Pamplona-Roger M.D., George. Encyclopedia of Foods and Their Healing Power.
This is a modern and concise encyclopedia that presents the latest research on food science, nutrition, and dietetics. With almost 700 foods from 5 continents described and around 300 recipes, the information contained in this encyclopedia is based on the latest research centers of Europe, America, and other continents. 1,278 pages in three volumes, hardcover.

Richardson, Brenda Lane and Elane Rehr. 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body.
Journalist Richardson and clinical psychologist Rehr, both mothers of teenage girls, closely examine the experience of girls today, and offer suggestions for counteracting the media, fashion trends, the lure of Barbie and other cultural input that may negatively impact a girl's confidence and self-image.

Silverman, Robyn, Ph.D. Good Girls Don't get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls and How we Can Help Them Thrive Despite It
In this straightforward guide, Silverman explores weight obsession in teenage girls, outlining ways that parents can help their daughters succeed in a "thin-is-in" world. Silverman had previously compiled "The Good Girls' Weight Rules" list of negative beliefs that society pushes on girls, such as "my emotions should depend on how fat I feel" and "I strive for size zero." She believes that girls should be taught to swap these harmful ideas for positive mottos (which she calls "Asset Girls' Ten Commandments) stressing confidence and achievements. Silverman outlines the causes behind an unhealthy body image and what parents can do to combat it, interspersing her advice with quizzes and stories from teens she's interviewed. Focusing mainly on mothers and daughters, Silverman also explores ways that fathers can reinforce a positive body image.  The author concludes with a helpful guide to resources promoting a healthy body image and self esteem, and a list of shops that carry plus-sized clothing.

Thompson, Becky. A Hunger so Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
2 A readable account based on interviews with 18 White, Latina, and African American women aged 19-46 in which the author found that in one-third to two-thirds of the cases, eating disorders were linked to emotional or, more particularly, sexual abuse. Such women are seeking control over their lives, Thompson argues, and food is the most accessible tool. She also examines the healing process, detailing these women's experiences with Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous and individual counseling.

Wann, Marilyn. Fat!So?:Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size!
In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on America's biggest fear--worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons--the fear of fat.

Weitz, Rose. Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives.
For any woman -- or man, for that matter -- who has ever had a bad hair day, Rapunzel’s Daughters is a must-read. Author Rose Weitz, a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, has written a fascinating and intriguing book about hair and its power to define a woman’s identity and create a cultural statement far beyond even what fashion and makeup can achieve.

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women.
In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, and then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the attempt to reach an impossible standard of beauty. Wolf rejects the standard and embraces the naturally distinct beauty of all women.

Yancey, Diane. STDs What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
The average teenager's understanding and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is probably quite inadequate. Diane Yancey begins with case studies of actual teens (using fictitious names) who have contracted or are about to contract STDs. These students' stories are woven through the chapters of the book as each disease is discussed adding a human touch to the medical discussion.