Growing Up Female
Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal was a "landmark" book of photography by photojournalist Abigail Heyman.
Heyman introduced the book, writing "This book is about women, and their lives as women, from one feminist’s point of view." The book collected photographs of Heyman's life, "challeng assumptions about being a woman", and "documented the female experience from a feminist perspective." Andy Grundberg described the book as "test the line between reportage and personal expression." The book portrayed numerous black-and-white images of women in various activities, including a photograph of Ms. Heyman herself having an abortion.
During the 1970s, the work sold more than 35,000 copies, and was a mainstay of women's bookstores and feminist literature displays, along with Our Bodies, Ourselves.
