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Our Bodies Ourselves

American organization

Also known as: Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

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“Our Bodies, Ourselves”

In Our Bodies, Ourselves
…authors were members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, which began as a small feminist discussion group in the late 1960s. To supplement scant or unavailable information about women’s health and medical issues, the group began writing articles on topics such as sexuality, birth control, abortion, pregnancy, and menopause,
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