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title: "“Our Bodies, Ourselves” and the Work of Writing"
date: 2024-05-08T19:37:00-04:00
author: Missy Moyer
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and the Work of Writing

By Susan Wells • Stanford University Press • January 1, 2010

“This \[book\] … tells the story of the first two decades of the pioneering best-seller―a collectively produced guide to women’s health―from its earliest, most experimental and revolutionary years, when it sought to construct a new, female public sphere, to its 1984 revision, when some of the problems it first posed were resolved and the book took the form it has held to this day.”

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