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title: "Formative Years: The Birth of Our Bodies Ourselves"
date: 2024-05-08T16:33:00-04:00
author: Missy Moyer
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Formative Years: The Birth of Our Bodies Ourselves

Joan Ditzion, Paula Doress-Worters, Nancy Miriam Hawley and Wendy Sanford • March 1, 2014

In March 2014, four of the co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves — Joan Ditzion, Paula Doress-Worters, Nancy Miriam Hawley and Wendy Sanford — presented a panel on the history of the organization and the book at a conference on the history of the Women’s Liberation movement. During the panel, they wove together their diverse personal coming-of-age stories with the organization’s early history. Extensive personal notes prepared by the founders for the panel are posted online, and you can [watch a video of the panel here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RI5be7PpFY).

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