Their mission is to empower women by providing information about health, sexuality, and reproduction. Our bodies, ourselves is a book about womens health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization our bodies ourselves originally called the boston womens health book collective. On october 1, 2011, the group will celebrate its forty years of activism with a symposium of global partners, allies and friends, and with the release of the ninth edition of the book. Our bodies, ourselves, or, our bodies, our liberal selves. Please note that as of june 2018 obos is no longer able to update our health content. Our bodies, ourselves isbn 9781439190661 pdf epub boston. As of april 2019, our bodies, ourselves has been adapted into 31 languages, most often in book form.
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The date an article was last revised is listed at the top of each page. While obos is famous for its voice in policy, advocacy, and educational efforts related to womens health, they see their role as a global content provider as paramount. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading our bodies, ourselves. Childers said the organization tried to raise money for a large. Download and read free online our bodies, ourselves by boston womens health book collective, judy norsigian. Smart news keeping you current our bodies, ourselves, the revolutionary feminist health book, will no longer print new editions in the 1970s, the book. This new edition of our bodies, ourselves includes the latest vital information on. Retitled from the original women and their bodies, our bodies, ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce womens ownership of their bodies. Almost 30 years later, obos remains controversial and essential. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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