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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Our Bodies, Ourselves @ Forty (+ Me!)

The Feminist Librarian • October 5, 2011

> I don't think I can adequately convey to you how proud I am to be a part of the OBOS project. My mother's battered copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves was my constant companion through adolescence and, among other things, was my first exposure to explicitly feminist analysis, my first exposure to the idea of same-sex relationships, and my introduction to masturbation and how to do it.

  
**Read the full story:** [Our Bodies, Ourselves @ Forty (+ Me!)](http://annajcook.blogspot.com/2011/10/our-bodies-ourselves-forty-me.html) by Anna J. Cook

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