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title: "From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh: How Young Women Learn to Hate their Genitals"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh: How Young Women Learn to Hate their Genitals

By Rebecca Gordon • Common Dreams • March 7, 2019

> If we were sometimes silly, we were also wise enough to know that understanding and taking control of our bodies was a first step to taking control of our lives. In 1973, the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective turned its 193-page, 75-cent pamphlet “Women and Their Bodies” into the book Our Bodies, Ourselves, and for the first time, women all over the United States could read about our own mysterious inner (and outer) workings.

  
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