By Andrea Martinez
Cover image from: Barton, Laura. “The Clitoris, Pain and Pap Smears: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Redefined Women’s Health.” The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, April 22, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/22/our-bodies-ourselves-clitoris-pain-pap-smears-womens-health.
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- This is the original cover of the Our Bodies, Ourselves booklet, titled “Women and Their Bodies: A Course.”
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- This article from 1979 emphasizes how critics felt that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and they may tire of giving long medical explanations to women who challenge them with quotations from feminist literature.” They say that literature such as the booklet would “fill doctors’ waiting-rooms with women suffering from hypochondriacal ‘cancers’ or ‘venereal diseases’ induced by reading about too many symptoms in a book.”
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- This image is an advertisement for the spanish translation of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Works Cited
Abramian, Jackie. “Iconic Book ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’ Goes Digital.” Ms. Magazine, October 27, 2022. https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/26/our-bodies-ourselves-sexual-health-abortion-orgasms-vulva-vagina/.
Barton, Laura. “The Clitoris, Pain and Pap Smears: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Redefined Women’s Health.” The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, April 22, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/22/our-bodies-ourselves-clitoris-pain-pap-smears-womens-health.
Horwitz, Rainey, “Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, later Our Bodies Ourselves (1969–)”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2019-09-06). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/13123.
National Women’s Health Network Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.” https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/120908
Our Bodies Ourselves Today. “History & Legacy.” Our Bodies Ourselves Today, November 17, 2022. https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/about-us/our-history/.
