Sacrificing our selves for love : why women compromise health, and self-esteem... and how to stop / by Jane Wegscheider Hyman and Esther R. Rome ; in cooperation with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Sacrificing ourselves for love

Freedom, California : The Crossing Press, 1996.

230 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.

Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Bc

I. Trying to look different. Self-starvation -- Help for women with eating disorders -- Changing our bodies through surgery -- Caveat emptor : shopping for a cosmetic surgeon -- Inflating our image : breast implants -- Accepting ourselves. II. Living in abusive relationships. Intimate abuse -- About rape -- Saving ourselves. III. Dying for love. The costs of physical love -- Choosing ourselves.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-222) and index.