Laura Eldridge
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| caption = Laura Eldridge, by Jeremy Weinberg
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| alma_mater = Barnard College
| occupation = Writer, activist
| years_active = 2007–current
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Laura Eldridge is a women's health writer and activist. She began working with the legendary women's health activist and author of The Doctor's Case Against The Pill, Barbara Seaman, when studying at Barnard College. She is co-author of The No-Nonsense Guide To MenopauseReproductive Writes: Keep Talking: An Interview with Laura Eldridge, Bitch Magazine, April 2, 2010. [http://bitchmagazine.org/post/reproductive-writes-keep-talking-an-interview-with-laura-eldridge] as well as the co-editor, also with Barbara Seaman, of Voices of the Women's Health Movement (Seven Stories Press, 2012) a collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100732420 |title=Seven Stories Press, January 2012 |access-date=2012-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419044812/http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100732420 |archive-date=2012-04-19 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|last=Bader|first=Eleanor J.|title=Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/154603/women_have_been_fighting_misinformation_and_oppression_of_their_bodies_for_decades|publisher=AlterNet|accessdate=22 December 2013}} She is also the author of In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women.{{cite web|last=Kissling|first=Elizabeth|title=Book Review: In Our (Birth) Control|url=http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/05/20/book-review-in-our-birth-control/|publisher=Ms. Magazine|accessdate=22 December 2013|date=May 20, 2010}}{{cite web|last=Pearson|first=Cynthia|title=Book Review: In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women|url=Book Review: In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women|publisher=National Women's Health Network|accessdate=22 December 2013}}{{cite web|title=In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58322-907-1|work=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=22 December 2013}}
Books
- The No-Nonsense Guide To Menopause (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
- In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010)
- Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volumes 1&2 (Seven Stories Press, 2012)
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://lauraeldridge.wordpress.com/}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvxNXjTgDuM Eldridge & Co: Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFX9o4IElbE Contraceptive Choices for Women talk at Harvard Book Store]
- [http://kboo.fm/node/34398 KBOO FM Interview with Barbara Seaman and Laura Eldridge]
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Category:Health and wellness writers
Category:American sex educators
Category:American women's rights activists
Category:American health activists
Category:American women journalists
Category:American non-fiction writers
Category:Women's health movement