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title: "Women and Their Bodies, 1970"
date: 2023-12-04T16:16:00-05:00
author: Eva Parker Passalacqua
canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/publications/women-and-their-bodies"
section: Publications
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[Publications](/publications)# Women and Their Bodies, 1970

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This first edition, a 193-page stapled, newsprint booklet, was created by the Our Bodies Ourselves founders and published by New England Free Press. The booklet puts women’s health in a radically new political and social context. 5000 printed copies are distributed by hand at workshops and among friends and the booklet becomes an underground success.

[Read the full book](https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/book_viewer/commonwealth:sb39fq492#?xywh=-5549%2C-394%2C16505%2C7877)
