I have never read Our Bodies, Ourselves and I feel it's some sort of shameful secret that I need to reconcile at some point. It might have to wait, however, since apparently the most recent edition is over 900 pages, and includes a lot more information than previous editions about self-care and information about body image, sexuality, safer sex, and relationships. How could someone who cares so much about all of those things and health and gender equality and giving people honest answers about their bodily function questions NOT read this groundbreaking book that encompasses all of this and more?
I don't know. It's daunting, I guess.
It's daunting because I know what a big deal it was, and that it has had a lot to do with how we live today. These twelve young women in Boston sat around talking and being honest and then they changed the way the world worked, essentially forever. Not single-handedly, of course, but they did all of us, women and men and the people who get to grow up in this new world, a great service in opening up these channels of dialogue previously considered taboo. And it's been FORTY YEARS of sustained change, which we should thank them for.
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