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title: "Obama Gives the Gift of \"Our Bodies, Ourselves\""
date: 2008-07-18T20:14:54-04:00
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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# Obama Gives the Gift of "Our Bodies, Ourselves"

By Christine Cupaiuolo • July 18, 2008

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Finally, a presidential candidate I wouldn't mind having as an older brother .... Check out [this story from the Tampa Tribune](http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/18/na-obama-a-feminist-sister-tells-tampa/):  
  
> Barack Obama is a dedicated feminist who "lives surrounded by women," his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, told a mostly female crowd at a Women For Obama event in downtown Tampa on Thursday. \[...\]  
>   
> Her older brother "really was the man in our lives" after their parents divorced, when the two were growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia, she said.  
>   
> She said he taught her to ride a bicycle, made her practice harder math problems and start an exercise program, took her on college visits **and even gave her her first women's health book - "Our Bodies, Ourselves," a 1973 guide that came out of the women's movement and focused on female sexuality, health and hygiene.**

  
  
Love it.  
  
So, any siblings out there need [a copy](/publications/obos.asp)?

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