Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition

by BELL, RUTH

• ISBN13: 9780812929904
• ISBN10: 081292990X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-09-08
• Publisher: Harmony

Summary

"It seems like everyone else has the script. Everyone else knows what's happening and I look around and say, Duh." Of course, the truth is that no one has the script because there is no script to follow. Chances are you'd find that almost everyone else has questions and worries a lot like yours, if you could get them to admit it. This brand-new, completely updated and revised edition of Changing Bodies, Changing Lives is full of honest, accurate, nonjudgmental information on everything teenagers need to know about today. Am I the only one who can't get up the nerve to ask someone out? got my period so early? doesn't even know the right way to kiss? feels pressured to use drugs? still hasn't hit puberty yet? wants to avoid the gang scene? worries when my mom doesn't come home at night? is scared that I might have AIDS? can't decide what form of birth control to use? has no idea how to tell my friends I'm gay? goes on eating binges? has never had an orgasm? is shut out of the popular crowd? Changing Bodies, Changing Liveshas helped hundreds of thousands of teenagers make informed decisions about their lives, from questions about sex, love, friendship, and how your body works to dealing with problems at school and home and figuring out who you are. It's packed with illustrations, checklists, and resources for the answers you really need. Best of all, it's filled with the voices, poems, and cartoons from hundreds of other teenagers, who tell you what makes them feel worried, angry, confused, sexy, happy, and, yes, even excited and hopeful about their lives. (Check out the first two pages for a sample of the quotes you'll find inside.) Being a teenager is tough. With the information and the ideas inside this book, you'll have what you need to make these years the best they can be.

Author Biography

<b>Ruth Bell</b> is a member of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, which authored Our Bodies, Ourselves. She has worked for many years in the field of health and sex education, especially in programs for teenagers. She is the mother of a son in his twenties and a teenage daughter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(6)
Changing Bodies	7	(46)
Ruth Bell
Jane Pincus
Wendy Sanford
Changing Relationships	53	(36)
Ruth Bell
Elizabeth McGee
Monica Mizrahi
Changing Sexuality	89	(64)
Wendy Sanford
Tim Wernette
Ruth Bell
Getting to Know Yourself as a Sexual Person
Exploring Sex with Someone Else
Exploring Sex with Someone of Your Same Sex
Emotional Health Care	153	(32)
Bonnie Folick
Ruth Bell
Sally Bowie
Eating Disorders	185	(10)
Breanna Farmer
Naomi Krupa
Ruth Bell
Substance Abuse	195	(14)
Steve Smith
Ruth Bell
Rob Evans
Living with Violence	209	(36)
Ruth Bell
Tim Wernette
Carolyn Myers
Thanks to Leni Wildflower for her work on the original chapter, ``Sex Against Your Will.''
Physical Health Care	245	(8)
Ruth Bell
Sexually Transmitted Diseases	253	(26)
Ruth Bell
Protecting Yourself: Safer Sex and Birth Control	279	(34)
Tim Wernette
Ruth Bell
So You Think You Might Be Pregnant	313	(56)
Joanne Gates
Changing Things	369	(30)
Carolyn Myers
Ruth Bell
Index	399