In 1970, a nonprofit organization called Our Bodies Ourselves published a book called “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” A feminist classic, the book (and its subsequent editions) contains information ...

'Our Bodies, Ourselves' was the first book to teach women about sex and birth control. ... undergraduates can peruse the changing artistry of body hair in a library exhibit of the early editions.

It advocates access to safe and legal abortions for all women, decries Brazilian bikini waxing for making adults resemble prepubescent girls ...

Our Bodies, Ourselves turns 40 years old this year, and the new edition includes the latest data on safer sex, body image, local and global activism, changes to the health care system and more.

Our Bodies, Ourselves, which turns 40 this year, was the sexual manifesto of its era: the first book on sexual health written by women for women that would go on to sell more than 4 million copies ...

“Our Bodies, Ourselves,” the 1970s-era bible of women’s health, will still be available online, ... I just felt like the book took me seriously, took my body seriously, ...

Since its original publication more than 40 years ago, Our Bodies, Ourselves sold more than 4 million copies and was donated to hundreds of thousands of women's centers worldwide. Now in its ninth ...

Our Bodies, Ourselves spoke for a women’s health movement that transformed American medicine and popular health-and-sexuality culture. In the 1960s, physicians commonly addressed female patients ...