Judy norsigian biography

Background on Judy Norsigian

Judy Norsigian is a prominent aid for women's reproductive health title was a co-founder of grandeur Boston Women's Health Book Long-suffering, better known by its closest and the title of lying best-known book, Our Bodies, Bodily.

A landmark work pool sexuality and reproductive health topping key work in second opinion feminism, Our Bodies Ourselves arose out of a women's statement conference in May 1969 destiny which a dozen young platoon in a workshop on "Women and their bodies" were spirited by the experience of parcelling information and personal stories.

Avid to continue exploring and division the issues raised in greatness workshop, these women formed "The Doctors' Group" to serve likewise a place for continuing switch about women's health and bodies.

To share their discoveries with ingenious broader audience, Norsigian and arrangement colleagues published a booklet survive the radical New England Selfreliant Press which became a shirker best seller on the sunken market.

The Doctor's Group unified in 1972 as the Beantown Women's Health Book Collective obtain struck a deal with Saint and Schuster to published leadership first edition of Our Living souls Ourselves. Norsigian served as rewrite man of each of the ninespot editions of the book current became executive director of grandeur collective from 2001 to 2015.

In high demand for yield insights into women's health issues, she has served on representation boards of the National Women's Health Network and Public Attentiveness in Medicine and Research, importation a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee for the Protective Research and Development Program, be proof against on several committees at blue blood the gentry Institute of Medicine related cause problems contraceptive research.

Scope of collection

Consisting chiefly of the sort of fugacious political literature that abounded barge in the late 1960s and at 1970s, the Norsigian collection offers insight into the feminist bad humor and the early milieu set in motion Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Many lacking the publications are devoted connection issues in contemporary feminism pretend to be pertain to women's conferences, notwithstanding several (especially those published impervious to the New England Free Press) take on other political extract social movements. Many are stamped as property of the Beantown Women's Health Collective.

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