Media Mentions
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A BBC Radio 4 Production
April 24, 2021
A wonderful hour-long radio documentary that features interviews with founders of Our Bodies Ourselves alongside vivid recordings from the early feminist movement…
The Clitoris, Pain and Pap Smears: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Redefined Women’s Health
April 22, 2021
At one point, Sanford remembers, the speaker held up a lifesize picture of a woman, with legs apart, to show the location…
The Evolution of Our Bodies Ourselves
April 19, 2021
In this online video, sponsored by Suffolk University, Judy Norsigian, co-founder and board chair of Our Bodies Ourselves, Amy Agigian, executive director…
Newton Writers Reflect on 50 Years of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
October 30, 2019
In 1973, Simon & Schuster published the first commercial edition … and by 1976, it was “recognized by the American Library Association’s…
June 3, 2019
In a time when “wellness” has become synonymous with “health,” it’s not difficult to wonder why a book dedicated to bringing rigorous…
Boston Sunday Review: Judy Norsigian
May 27, 2019
In this podcast, OBOS cofounder Judy Norsigian talks about the fight for women’s reproductive rights in the United States and how recent…
Our Bodies Ourselves 50th Anniversary Celebration
May 14, 2019
Panelists at the May 10, 2019 celebration of Our Bodies Ourselves include, from l – r: Suffolk student Sabrina Dias, Suffolk student…
Remembering The Meeting 50 Years Ago That Led To ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
May 8, 2019
This is how movements get started: There’s a little conversation here, and another in another community, and people get connected somehow —…
American Journal of Public Health: Our Bodies Ourselves
May 8, 2019
The June 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) features reflections by cofounder Judy Norsigian on the women’s health…
April 5, 2019
As members of the anti-abortion movement have sought increasingly extreme restrictions on the procedure — and have rolled back access to contraception…
Ely Exhibit Revisits “Our Bodies, Ourselves”
March 8, 2019
That sense of history, the fragility of progress, and the need to continue to work to move forward permeate “Our Bodies Ourselves,”…
From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh: How Young Women Learn to Hate their Genitals
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…
Long Ago and Far Away, ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Bonded Us As Women
September 28, 2018
The announcement that the organization behind Our Bodies, Ourselves will shift its focus to advocacy as of October 1 and no longer update the…
Law Needed to Expand Access to Midwives
July 19, 2018
The countries with the best outcomes for moms and babies provide maternity care primarily by midwives. Massachusetts ranks in the bottom half…
June 19, 2018
She [author Joyce Antler] spoke to some of the highlights of her forthcoming book [“Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices From the Women’s Liberation…
Feminists Today Should Look to ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ for Activist Model
May 2, 2018
The group’s success can be attributed to the model of feminist activism they illustrate in their book. Based in consciousness-raising, it is…
The Forgotten Anger of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
April 28, 2018
Much of today’s wellness rhetoric omits the argument “Our Bodies, Ourselves” placed front and center: that physical and economic health are not…
The Global Reach of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
April 26, 2018
Diana Namumbejja Abwoye started translating the Ugandan version of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” in 2012. That was a year after she received a copy…
Our Bodies, Ourselves — Online
April 22, 2018
Pincus was one of about two dozen women — many of them young mothers — in the Boston area who found themselves…
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Identities, and the Next Chapter for Our Bodies Ourselves
April 20, 2018
From the beginning, OBOS promoted a broad and often daring vision of the close ties between women’s health and social, environmental, and…
How Will We Figure Out Our Bodies Without ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’?
April 19, 2018
In an email to Lifehacker, Norsigian said even more explicitly that OBOS becoming less current felt extremely significant under the Trump administration, which has…
