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title: "In Celebration of the Women of “Our Bodies, Ourselves”"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# In Celebration of the Women of “Our Bodies, Ourselves”

By Ruth McCambridge • Nonprofit Quarterly • April 9, 2018

> When the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective began putting together *Our Bodies, Ourselves* in the early Seventies, first as a series of broadsheets and then as a book with full blown chapters, it was a radical act. That now-familiar work talked frankly about women’s anatomies and their life phases—masturbation, menstruation, menopause and comparative assessments of birth control methods—in a single handy-dandy manual. It was a guide to women’s bodies without a trace of shame or salaciousness or cuteness—amusing, yes, and well-illustrated…entrancing even. It answered all the questions one did not quite know how to ask.

  
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