Barbara Seaman

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Barbara Seaman (born September 11, 1935 in New York City , † February 27, 2008 in New York City) was a feminist author, journalist and activist who is best known as one of the founders of the women's health movement.

Life

With her first book The Doctors' Case Against the Pill , which was also the basis of the Nelson Pill Hearings , Barbara Seaman raised awareness of the dangers of the birth control pill and thus contributed to the introduction of package inserts for hormonal contraceptives in the US and the lower dosage today same at. In response to its effective activism, the pharmaceutical industry boycotted magazines it published in, resulting in effective censorship as it was denied access to many media. The US Senate held a hearing on the side effects of the pill in 1970, as a result of which - to the exclusion of the critics - a drastic reduction in the proportion of estrogen in the birth control pill was decided. The hormone was administered ten times more than was necessary for contraception.

She was active in the New York Women's Forum (' New York Women's Forum '), which she co-founded in 1973, in the New York City Women's Medical Center ('Medical Center for Women in New York City') and the National Organization for Women ( 'National Organization for Women'). In 1975 she co-founded the National Women's Health Network with Alice Wolfson, Belita Cowan, Mary Howell and Phyllis Chesler .

Fonts

  • The Doctor's Case Against the Pill (1969),
    • German translation: Doctors contra pill. Arguments of science . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1970.
  • Free and Female (1972)
  • Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977, with G. Seaman)
  • Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann (1987)
  • The Greatest Experiment ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth (2003)
  • For Women Only: Your Guide to Health Empowerment (2000, with Gary Null).

Contributions to books (selection):

  • Career and Motherhood (1979)
  • Rooms with No View (1974)
  • Women and Men (1975)
  • Seizing our Bodies (1978)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halina Bendkowski : Against the Pill - Obituary for Barbara Seaman , Friday 10/2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Seaman, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American feminist author, journalist, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2008
Place of death New York City