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[Publications](/publications)# Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Table of Contents

*By Ruth Bell and other co-authors of* “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” *together with members of the Teen Book Project.*

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**Acknowledgments**

**Preface**

**Introduction**

**Changing Bodies**  
by Ruth Bell, Jane Pincus, and Wendy Sanford

**Changing Relationships**  
by Ruth Bell, with help from Elizabeth McGee and Monica Mizrahi

**Changing Sexuality**  
by Wendy Sanford and Tim Wernette, with help from Ruth Bell

**Emotional Health Care**  
by Bonnie Folick and Ruth Bell. Original chapter by Sally Bowie

**Eating Disorders**  
by Breanna Farmer, Naomi Krupa, and Ruth Bell

**Substance Abuse**  
by Steve Smith, with help from Ruth Bell

**Living with Violence**  
by Ruth Bell and Tim Wernette, with help from Carolyn Myers and from the Center for Population and Family Health of Columbia University. Thanks to Leni Wildflower for her work on the original chapter, “Sex against Your Will.”

**Physical Health Care**  
by Ruth Bell

**Sexually Transmitted Diseases**  
by Ruth Bell

**Protecting Yourself: Safer Sex and Birth Control**  
by Tim Wernette and Ruth Bell

**So You Think You Might Be Pregnant**  
by Joanne Gates

**Changing Things**  
by Carolyn Myers, with help from Ruth Bell

**Index**

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*From* “Changing Bodies, Changing Lives” *by Ruth Bell and other co-authors of* “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” *together with members of the Teen Book Project. Three Rivers Press: 1998. © Ruth Bell.*