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title: "‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’? It’s Shelved"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’? It’s Shelved

By Jessica Valenti • The New York Times • April 12, 2018

> When your mother handed you a copy of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” it meant one of two things: You were about to have a pained conversation with a parent wielding a hand mirror, or you were meant to take the book, read it and never mention it again. Either way, you were prepared.
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> For generations of girls, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” was the starter pack to adulthood: It let you know whether your vulva was weird looking (it wasn’t), what kind of birth control you might want to use and whether you were the only one who had a special relationship with your pillow. (You weren’t, Page 162 assured.)

  
Read the complete story: [‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’? It’s Shelved](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/style/our-bodies-ourselves-book-publishing.html)

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