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Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause was published in 2006, [13] and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth in 2008. [14] The Boston Women's Health Book Collective earlier produced Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book For Teens on Sex and Relationships [15] and The New Ourselves, Growing Older: Women Aging with Knowledge and Power. [16] [17]
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.
Their writing was so sought after that they started selling their research as a 35-cent, 136-page booklet called Women and Their Bodies, published in 1970 by the New England Free Press. By 1973, 350,000 copies of the retitled Our Bodies, Ourselves had been sold without any formal advertising. [41]
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.
A new Stanford University study finds our body grows older in bursts in mid-40s and early 60s. The findings could be used to suggest behavior shifts. Our bodies age in rapid bursts when we hit our ...
21. "We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." — Beyoncé. 22. "Women must learn to play the game as men do." — Eleanor ...
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Menstrual extraction (ME) is a type of manual vacuum aspiration technique developed by feminist activists Lorraine Rothman and Carol Downer to pass the entire menses at once. . The non-medicalized technique has been used in small feminist self-help groups since 1971 and has a social role of allowing access to early abortion without needing medical assistance or legal approv