Our Bodies, Ourselves
Taking Charge of Our Bodies does this in an Indian context. In a sense it works backwards—raising questions, interviewing women and giving excerpts of their responses, with practical and current information on common health problems and remedies.
Surprisingly, the authors dismiss the idea of reproductive rights as something not for Indian women, when it was first accepted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.
What one would also have liked in the volume are references to alternative healing techniques, which many middle-class women are moving towards, and the role of women as healers.
