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title: "In 'Our Bodies,' a Right to Knowledge"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# In 'Our Bodies,' a Right to Knowledge

The Boston Globe • November 6, 2011

> In many ways, it’s the same old battle: Where women lack access to information, they often lack control over the basic boundaries of their lives. For that reason, “Our Bodies, Ourselves’’ now has a global reach. The latest edition features international partners, such as an NGO of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli women, who are putting out their own versions of the book in Arabic and Hebrew. It also contains more anecdotes and testimonials; Norsigian said the editors concluded that women learn through stories.

  
**Read the full story:** [In Our Bodies, a Right to Knowledge](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2011/11/05/our-bodies-right-knowledge/RmajQuXWvCgvEbjpBIulQO/story.html) by Joanna Weiss

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