Our Bodies Ourselves in the New York Times!
Our member Our Bodies Ourselves is featured in a New York Times article, With a Groundbreaking Handbook and a Dystopian Tale, Women Gain a Voice.
Retro Report, whose video documentaries explore how major news stories of the past still resonate, turns its lens on “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a book first published in the early 1970s. It revolutionized how health care for women was discussed. In frank language and illustrations, it delved into topics that a half-century ago were publicly taboo, from birth control to pregnancy, from sexual desires to menopause. Judy Norsigian was one of the women who got the project rolling. “We were dealing with a system,” she said, “that was antithetical to getting good medical care and being treated like full human beings.”