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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]
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.
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.
A notable piece of work produced by the Bread and Roses collective was called Women and their Bodies: a Course, which was later developed into Our Bodies, Ourselves. [7] This course was published in 1970 under the name of the Boston Women's Health Collective and combined the women's personal anecdotes with factual information regarding feminist ...
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.
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]
In tandem with her work as a writer, Seaman was a political organizer. She was a founding member of the New York Women's Forum (1973), vice president of the New York City Women's Medical Center (1971), and sat on the advisory board of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (1973). [6]
Lonnie later noticed surgical scars on both of his youngest daughters' bodies. He asked his social worker what had actually happened. On realizing that their daughters had been sterilized without their consent, the Relfs filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with the help of the Southern ...