1. Barbara Seaman was an American author, feminist activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health movement.
15 Facts About Barbara Seaman
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When she was in high school, Seaman won a writing contest.
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Barbara Seaman launched her career as a women's health journalist and brought a new kind of health reporting to the field, writing articles that centered more on the patient and less on the medical fads of the day.
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Barbara Seaman was first to reveal that women lacked the information they needed to make informed decisions on child-bearing, breast-feeding, and oral contraceptives.
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Barbara Seaman even went so far as to alert women to the dangers of the Pill, whose primary ingredient was estrogen.
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In tandem with her work as a writer, Barbara Seaman was a political organizer.
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Barbara Seaman was a founding member of the New York Women's Forum, vice president of the New York City Women's Medical Center, and sat on the advisory board of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women.
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Barbara Seaman was an enthusiastic promoter of other writers on women's health and body issues.
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Barbara Seaman later helped to write major obituaries for her fellow activists in the women's health movement, including Dr Mary Howell and Lorraine Rothman.
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Barbara Seaman was dismissed from Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, Omni and Hadassah magazines.
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Barbara Seaman took advantage of this forced lull by turning to biography.
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Barbara Seaman lived in New York City, close to her three children, four grandchildren, two sisters, and two nephews.
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Barbara Seaman continued to write about hormonal contraceptives, childbirth, and the unwillingness of some doctors and pharmaceutical companies to disclose risks to patients and consumers.
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Barbara Seaman collaborated with Laura Eldridge on two books, The No Nonsense Guide to Menopause released in 2008 and Voices of the Women's Health Movement to be published in January 2012.
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In 2000, Barbara Seaman was named by the US Postal Service as an honoree of the 1970s Women's Rights Movement stamp.