WOMEN’S HEALTH MOVEMENT IN ITALY
[PALOSCHI, Carmela, ed.]
STAMPA ALTERNATIVA. Manuale di autocura.
London, Lewis Mc Cann, 1974.
8vo, pp. 24; illustrated with numerous diagrams and caricatures; a fine copy, stapled in the original wrapper, front cover illustrated by Cecilia.
First edition of a handbook on women’s self health and sexuality distributed in Italy by the countercultural publisher ‘Stampa Alternativa’, and modelled on the famous Circle One: self health handbook, published in the USA in 1973 by the Colorado Springs Women’s Health clinic.
The first part is a translation of the Circle One handbook, opening with a brief history of the Feminist Women’s Health centres, followed by an advocacy and explanation of the cervical self-examination, menstrual extraction and breast self-exam, before ending with a description of various vaginal infections and their treatment. The second part deals with all the different methods of contraception available, as well as those undergoing clinical trials (such as the ‘morning after pill’ and the male contraceptive pill), for both women and men, and explains their mechanism, efficacy, side effects, price and where to get them.
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