The book also delved into issues of contraception use, healthy relationships, nutrition, and sexually transmitted diseases. Despite the fact that abortion was illegal in the United States, the chapter on abortion had been included since the original pamphlet-style publication. The book examined women's reproductive health, including chapters on menstruation, birth control, pregnancy stages, and challenges during pregnancy. The Boston Women's Health Collective wrote Our Bodies, Ourselves to educate women about their own health and sexuality, topics rarely discussed openly at the time of its initial publication. Since the formal establishment of the group in 1972 and the publication of Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1973, the group reported tremendous positive feedback about the mission of the group and about Our Bodies, Ourselves. Subsequent publications under the name Our Bodies, Ourselves incorporated more information and details of issues and topics regarding women of many backgrounds. In 1973, Simon and Schuster published the pamphlets as a book, Our Bodies, Ourselves. Their goals included producing medically accurate books about health, collaborating with organizations and individuals who generated change for women's health, and inspiring and empowering women to become engaged politically. Shortly after the initial publication of Women and Their Bodies in 1970, the authors formed the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit group that promoted women's health and education. In 1970, the group published Women and Their Bodies which compiled pamphlets and personal stories, studies, and research about women's health. They formed a group called the Doctors Group.
The women who collaborated on Our Bodies, Ourselves met at a women's conference in Boston in the spring of 1969 in the midst of the feminist movement in the United States. Our Bodies, Ourselves has sold more than four million copies and been printed in twenty foreign-language editions. There have been eight editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as sequels such as Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts, was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. To support a planning meeting to develop an international information system on women's health.Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973), by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective $24,000įor start-up costs and additional fundraising for the research, writing, and publication of a handbook for women and women's organizations about AIDS.
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To update the resource collection and expand contacts with women's and health organizations around the world. To support international health networking and an exchange program (over two years). To support technical assistance to groups preparing other-language versions of "Our Bodies, Ourselves," and overseas information dissemination and exchange (over three years).
To translate and distribute "Our Bodies, Ourselves." $150,000 To build capacity of women's groups in ten countries to translate and adapt women's health resources, and to improve online access to materials in multiple languages (over three years).
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