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Our Bodies, Ourselves ; Author: Boston Women's Health Book Collective (Our Bodies Ourselves) Language: English: Published: 1968, by Simon & Schuster. Between 1971 and 2011, the print edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" was revised and updated eight times. Publication place: United States: ISBN: 0-671-21434-9
Esther Rachel Rome (née Seldman; September 8, 1945 – June 24, 1995) was an American women's health activist and writer. She was part of group of 12 women who co-founded the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (now called Our Bodies, Ourselves), and wrote a widely published book called Women and Their Bodies that was updated and expanded over time.
Norma Meras Swenson (born 1932) is an activist, a medical sociologist and a leader in the developing woman's health movement.She co-founded the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (BWHBC), and co-authored with the Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS), and served as president of the OBOS nonprofit organization for several years.
By 1973, 350,000 copies of the retitled Our Bodies, Ourselves had been sold without any formal advertising. [41] As a result of their success, the women formed the non-profit Boston Women's Health Book Collective (which now goes by the name Our Bodies Ourselves) and published the first 276-page Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1973.
Nancy Miriam Hawley is an activist and feminist who contributed to the founding of Our Bodies, Ourselves.She also serves as a co-author of Ourselves and Our Children, [1] and a publisher of You and Your Partner, Inc: Entrepreneurial Couples Succeeding in Business, Life and Love, in which she teamed up with her husband to publish. [2]
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem (1992) "Talking Our Way In", Rachel Adler (1992) [527] The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex, Carol Tavris (1992) The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig (1992) The War Against Women, Marilyn French (1992)
Susan Bordo is an American philosopher work in contemporary cultural studies, with a particular focus on feminist theory. [1] Her scholarship examines the intersection of culture and the body, addressing topics such as eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, plastic surgery, ideals of beauty, racism and the body, masculinity, and sexual harassment.