Selected Articles about Our Bodies Ourselves

Our Bodies Ourselves co-founder Judy Norsigian and Our Bodies Ourselves Today program director Laura Prieto spoke at the Wilmington (Massachusetts) Public Library about the work of Our Bodies Ourselves, locally and globally, from 1969 to now.

Our Bodies Ourselves Today Executive Director Amy Agigian spoke with Ms. magazine about the launch of Our Bodies Ourselves Today.

A wonderful hour-long radio documentary that features interviews with founders of Our Bodies Ourselves alongside vivid recordings from the early feminist movement.

This article from The Guardian delves into the history and legacy of Our Bodies Ourselves by following the journeys of OBOS co-founder Wendy Sanford and OBOS board member Diana Namumbejja Abwoye.

An article from Glamour that examines the proliferation of the hugely profitable and highly speculative "health and wellness” industry and talks about the need for "rigorous, collaborative, untainted medical information" like that provided by Our Bodies Ourselves.

Three generations of feminists came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first meeting of the Our Bodies Ourselves founders and to discuss the future of women’s health activism.

This opinion piece explores the beginnings of Our Bodies Ourselves and the model the group uses to encourage people to take action in the face of diversity and uncertainty.

Mary Dore's film, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, is a provocative, rousing documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s liberation movement from 1966 to 1971.

Forty-three years after the publication of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", a group of people, inspired by the book, came together to create a health advocacy resource by and for trans people.In the afterw...

In March 2014, four of the co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves — Joan Ditzion, Paula Doress-Worters, Nancy Miriam Hawley and Wendy Sanford — presented a panel on the history of the organization and...

In addition to producing the books, Women and Their Bodies runs an online information center (which has been hacked multiple times since the book was published) and an ongoing series of health work...

OBOS founder Judy Norsigian discusses the early history of the organization, the conditions that drove the founders to learn about their health and bodies, the early wins of the wome...

“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, w...

“From the first newsprint edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", which became an underground sensation, to the brand new book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth", released in March 2008, the...

“Within the United States, women routinely confront negative and distorted ideas about birth, and highly medicalized births are the norm. The writers and editors of "Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnanc...

“The progressive social movements of the last half-century produced millions of pages of print, from manifestos to journalism to novels, but nothing as influential as "Our Bodies, Ourselves". The f...

“Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, ...

“Historians often ponder how books change history. "Our Bodies, Ourselves", the enormously popular and influential work, will long be studied for igniting and sustaining a worldwide women’s health ...

An in-depth look at the 1973 chapter, “In Amerika They Call Us Dykes,” the only chapter not composed by the original Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Written instead by the Boston Gay Collect...

“This paper focuses on those ordinary women who responded to editions of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating how readers played a crucial role in the development and articu...

In this special section of the NWSA Journal, four members of the editorial team for the 2005 edition, "Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century", share their experiences, what they aimed to achiev...

OBOS co-founder Jane Pincus tells the story of how Our Bodies Ourselves came into being and explores the challenges faced by women around the world who translated or adapted the book into their own...

In this article from The European Journal of Women's Studies, feminist scholar Kathy Davis examines the impact of the global translations and adaptations of "Our Bodies, Ourselves."

This article, written by the founders, offers a history of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. It looks at the organization’s transition from a small, grassroots ...

In 1998 the 7th edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" was published. This article features an interview with OBOS founder Paula Doress-Worters and an exploration of what has and what hasn’t changed in...

This article looks at the history and development of the text in "Our Bodies, Ourselves" from the 1970 edition to the 1984 edition. It focuses primarily on the content on pregnancy and birth, and h...