'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Author Looks Back, and Ahead
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › April 29, 2008
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The book made you blush. Explicit, illustrated and in plain English, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" burst into bookstores and bedrooms nearly 40 years ago, unveiling the female body for a generation of Americans.
It answered questions few women dared ask, about ovaries and orgasms, breasts and birth control, abortion and abuse. It was a frank, communal narrative starting with the pronoun "we."See the full content of this document
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'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Author Looks Back, and Ahead
Did we mention the illustrations?
"We were college-educated women, and we didn't know anything about our bodies," says co-author Judy Norsigian. Her 12 co- founders were mo...See the full content of this document
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