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title: A Feminist Classic Gets a Makeover
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# A Feminist Classic Gets a Makeover

New York Times Book Review • July 17, 2005

> Our Bodies, Ourselves was somehow different. Unlike the glam Studio 54-esque vibe emanating from the lamé-clad mama, it had a distinctly hippie, wholesome, anti-materialistic flavor -- the clean bouquet of activism and political progress. It lay out in the open, defiant, on the coffee table. Despite being chock-full of naughty bits, it was apparently considered ''educational,'' O.K. for junior consumption -- at least in our liberal circles; not so by Jerry Falwell, who declared it ''obscene trash.''

  
**Read the full story:** [A Feminist Classic Gets a Makeover](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/books/review/17JACOBSL.html?ex=1132462800&en=3f06bd27bdc149f6&ei=5070&_r=0) by Alexandra Jacobs

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