Introduction
Welcome to Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic
book about women's health and sexuality that is
written by women, for women. Since its first
newsprint version in 1970, Our Bodies, Ourselves
has been created and revised by women speaking
from our own research and experiences about our
bodies, health, and medical care.
This edition reflects the work of more than four
hundred women - and quite a few men - who
share both personal stories and health
information based on the latest scientific
evidence. The result is a new Our Bodies,
Ourselves, rewritten for today's realities.
Changing Times, Continuing Need
Much has changed since the late 1960s and early
1970s, when the group that became the Boston
Women's Health Book Collective first started to
meet. Abortion is now legal (though threatened),
and birth control options have increased; the
AIDS epidemic has made safer sex a subject of
public discussion; and lesbian and gay couples
have the right to marry, at least in
Massachusetts. Many groups, including an active
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