Our Bodies Not Ourselves

Taylor & Francis

Our Bodies Not OurselvesWOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED\nAuthor(s): Kathryn A. Kirigin, Carol A.B. Warren\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138602373, 978-1138602373\nSynopsis\nIn 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female body: on reproduction, sexuality, genitalia, intimacy and relationships in the context of North American cultural expectations. Our Bodies Not Ourselves is also about the female bodybut on women aging from menopause to 100. Like its predecessor, Our Bodies Not Ourselves covers sexuality, genitalia, intimacy, gender norms and relationships. But the aging woman's body has many other issues, from head to toe, from skeleton to skin, and from sleep to motion.\n\nThe book, an ethnography and Western cultural history of aging and gender, draws upon history, culture and social media, the authors o.