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In 1971, the first our bodies, ourselves book sold 250,000 copies at the time, fewer than 10% of doctors were women, and many topics were taboo time magazine named our bodies, ourselves. On october 1, 2011, the group will celebrate its forty years of activism with a symposium of global partners, allies and friends, and with the release of the ninth edition of the book. Retitled from the original women and their bodies, our bodies, ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce womens ownership of their bodies. It was a groundbreaking publication in its expressed goal of dispelling widespread ignorance about the female body and womens health issues.
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