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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 .
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.
This became the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. [6] According to Hawley, "every woman has a body, every woman is going to want this book." [4] Hawley's contribution to the book included the chapter on psychotherapy. In the 1960s, people believed the topic of psychotherapy for women should not be discussed, and many members of the ...
Foxfire Books series, from the magazine of the same name, popular with the 1970s back-to-the-land movement; Steal this book, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, 1971, a guide to living with little or no money, and to living outside the rules of establishment culture; Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973
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2008 Distinguished Book Award from the Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender at the American Sociological Association for The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves (2007) [8] 2008 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology for The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves (2007) [ 9 ]