"The Making of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'": Founders' Corrections

A note from the founders of Our Bodies Ourselves

October 2009

Kathy Davis’s excellent and prize-winning book “The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders” (Duke University Press, 2007) contains the main historical record of Our Bodies Ourselves (formerly known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) written to date. Perhaps inevitably with a project of such scope, the book contains some errors related to key aspects of the group’s history.

We wanted to use the website to share our corrections and suggested changes. To do so, we’ve created a priority list of the changes (posted below) that we feel are the most significant to understanding what our group has done and cared about over the past four decades. Below those, you’ll find a secondary list of corrections that are, although important to us, less critical. Kathy Davis’s response is also published here. Thank you for reading!