Authors’ panel Discussion of the new edition of Our Bodies Ourselves - Thirtry-five years later
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Posted by Web Team, February 08, 2006
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Panel Discussion with Three Co-Authors of Our Bodies Ourselves- Thirty Five Years Later
February 15, 2006 from 4:30 to 6:00pm in P 413 – The Palace Road Building
Our Bodies Ourselves, a groundbreaking book that sparked a women’s health movement, has been revised and updated for a new generation of women. OBOS began in Boston in 1970 as a small newsprint pamphlet which became a best seller. Now, 35 years later in its 8th edition it has been translated and adapted into 20 languages and over 4 million copies have been sold. Topics range from diet, exercise, relationships, sexuality, birth control, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, body image, midlife and menopause and navigating the health care system. The generations together have a lot at stake to construct a vision that will improve the health and well being of women and empower women of all ages.
Join us for a panel discussion about the new book and its history with three coauthors of Our Bodies Ourselves: A New edition for a New Era (2005).
Panelists:
Joan Ditzion ( ’85 Simmons School of Social Work) is a Founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, a co-author of all editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves and primary author of “Mid-life and Menopause” and “Our Later Years” chapters in the new book. She is a geriatric social worker and educator interested in aging families and relationships between adult children and their aging parents.
Heather Stephenson is the books program manager for Our Bodies Ourselves. She served as the managing editor of the 2005 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves and is now working on a new series of books on single topics in women’s health. The series will start with an Our Bodies, Ourselves guide to menopause, which is expected to be published this summer.
Margaret Lazarus is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker and author. Her films on rape, domestic violence and media images have won numerous prizes and awards and seen internationally. She has been a rape and sexual harassment peer counselor and worked as an activist in the violence against women movement. She is a longstanding contributor to Our Bodies, Ourselves and primary author of the Violence and Abuse Chapter in the new book.
