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title: All women should have this book...
date: 2011-04-26T18:29:41-04:00
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By Our Bodies Ourselves • April 26, 2011

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Submitted by: Cat Grant  
  
[![Cat Grant](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/images/blog-archive/cat.jpg "cat")](https://assets.ourbodiesourselves.org/images/blog-archive/cat.jpg)I found this book when I was about 20. It politicized me about my body and other women's bodies -- in reading it I realized that our bodies weren't "private." I found it just as I was changing my position on women's right to choose - moving away from a pro-life position to a position where women had the right to control their bodies. I bought one in a second hand shop and passed it on to a younger woman and hopefully she passed it on too. A new edition is well needed for a new generation for girls and women. All mothers, aunties, grandmothers should give this to their daughters, granddaughters and nieces. All women around the world should have this book -- and it wouldn't hurt the men to read it either!  
  
*In this series, readers [tell their stories](/history/reading-our-bodies-ourselves/ "Reading Our Bodies, Ourselves") about their experiences with the book and its impact on their lives. [View more stories](/category/our-bodies-ourselves/readers-stories/).*

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