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Started in 1969 by women who met at a workshop, it has changed womens thinking about health. The need for a book like our bodies, ourselves remains as strong as ever. Judy norsigian is the executive director of our bodies ourselves. Our bodies, ourselves is a book about womens health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit. Our bodies, ourselves paperback a room of ones own. The boston womens health book collective now known as our bodies ourselves is a nonprofit organization founded in 1969 whose board members include teresa heinz kerry, susan love, and gloria steinem. In the early 1970s, boston feminists established a collective to teach themselves and other women about their bodies. Our bodies, ourselves 1973, by the boston womens health book collective. Our bodies, ourselves, american book on womens health, first published in 1970. Excerpts and, in some we and our body available online. Stories of ourselves pdf download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about womens bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on womens health. When our bodies, ourselves, a women s health manual written by and for women, was first selfpublished by the boston women s health collective as an underground. Why the womens sexual health book still matters orgasmic our bodies, ourselves was the first book to teach women about sex and birth control.
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