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title: "Huffington Post Looking Back at 40 Years of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Huffington Post Looking Back at 40 Years of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'

Huffington Post • October 4, 2011

> “We didn’t even know we were starting anything,” said Doress-Worters, one of the original co-authors of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” The Boston Women’s Health Collective -- the group of women behind the book -- was born out of a workshop held at Emmanuel College in 1969 called “Women In Control of Our Bodies.”  
>   
> "I was really excited by the conversation,” Doress-Worters said. “A lot of it came down to \[the fact that\] not only did we not have answers -- we didn’t know the questions to ask.” From these informal discussions, a collective vision was born.

  
**Read the full story:** [Huffington Post Looking Back at 40 Years of 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/our-bodies-ourselves-2011_n_982586.html) by Emma Gray

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