By Jane E. Brody — 2025
Here in one volume is the definitive picture of women’s health at the beginning of the new millennium.
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Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.
When writer Roxane Gay dubbed herself a “bad feminist,” she was making a joke, acknowledging that she couldn’t possibly live up to the demands for perfection of the feminist movement. But she’s realized that the joke rang hollow.
Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.
Both anti-abortionists and disability activists have sometimes suggested that women should defer to “nature” and have whatever baby they conceive. The bioethicist William Ruddick calls this the “ ‘hospitality’ view of women.
Oprah’s Book Club author, Glennon Doyle Melton, says there’s something problematic in the way society views women who speak their minds.