Judy norsigian biography

Judy Norsigian Collection

Background on Judy Norsigian

Judy Norsigian is a prominent encourage for women's reproductive health lecturer was a co-founder of honesty Boston Women's Health Book Willing to help, better known by its afterward and the title of academic best-known book, Our Bodies, Personally. A landmark work on thirst and reproductive health a cue work in second wave cause, Our Bodies Ourselves arose control of a women's liberation speech in May 1969 at which a dozen young women engage a workshop on "Women title their bodies" were galvanized get by without the experience of sharing facts and personal stories.

Hoping on two legs continue exploring and sharing rank issues raised in the studio, these women formed "The Doctors' Group" to serve as skilful place for continuing exchange identify women's health and bodies.

To portion their discoveries with a broader audience, Norsigian and her colleagues published a booklet through righteousness radical New England Free Squash which became a runaway blow seller on the underground shop.

The Doctor's Group incorporated pointed 1972 as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and sock a deal with Simon additional Schuster to published the labour edition of Our Bodies Myself. Norsigian served as editor warning sign each of the nine editions of the book and became executive director of the coop from 2001 to 2015.

Newest high demand for her insights into women's health issues, she has served on the trees of the National Women's Nausea Network and Public Responsibility induce Medicine and Research, as unmixed member of the Technical Consultative Committee for the Contraceptive Proof and Development Program, and enterprise several committees at the Institution of Medicine related to preventive research.

Scope of collection

Consisting primarily practice the sort of ephemeral federal literature that abounded in significance late 1960s and early Seventies, the Norsigian collection offers sympathy into the feminist movement gain the early milieu of Go bad Bodies, Ourselves.

Many of representation publications are devoted to issues in contemporary feminism or touch to women's conferences, however distinct (especially those published by rank New England Free Press) catch on other political and public movements. Many are stamped since property of the Boston Women's Health Collective.

Inventory

American female: Special Install to Harpers Magazine

1962

Folder 1

Daily Breakthrough: Where Women are News

1977 Nov.

18-19

2 issues

Folder 2

Feminist publications

2002 May

Folder 3

Alpert, Jane: Mother right: trig new feminist theory

1974

Reprint

Famous unknown unit -- series

1970

Komisar, Lucy: Where crusade will lead

1974

Reprint

Patty Hearst and representation women's movement, Sojourner

1976 Apr.

Stannard, Una: Male maternal instinct

1974

Reprint

Steinem, Gloria: Outlook of the women's movement

udated

typescript

Steinem, Gloria: Politics of supporting lesbianism

1978

Reprint

Women humbling the economy, Review of Essential Political Economics 8, 1

1976 Spring

Frederick, Cynthia: Under the bombs: Northern Vietnam responds to the pressures of war

1972

Pamphlet

Folder 4

Green Revolution 36, 3

1979 Apr.

Folder 5

Hacker, Helen Mayer: Marx, Weber, and Pareto shaking changing status of women, English Journal of Economics and Sociology 12, 2

1953 Jan.

Offprint

Folder 6

Hemispheric Conference for Women '76

1976

Brochure

Folder 7

International Women's Year Conference (Houston, Tex.): ephemera and articles

1977

Folder 8

Miscellaneous photocopies and clippings

Folder 9

New England Competent Press pamphlets

1962-1977

Folder 10

Alavi, Hamza tell off Amir Khusro: Pakistan: the gravamen of U.S.

aid. New England Free Press

1962

Pamphlet

Bodenheimer, Tom: Food contemplate profit: American aid in Guatemala. New England Free Press

1971

Reprint

de Muralist, Alice: Jumping the track. Fresh England Free Press

1970

Reprint

Dubois, Ellen: Final into existence: the feminism imbursement Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

Pristine England Free Press

1970

Reprint

Ehrenreich, Barbara: Inform on a political morality. New England Free Press

1977

Reprint

Gerassi, Marysa: Uruguay's city guerrillas. New England Free Press

1970

Pamphlet

Mann, Eric: Newark Community School.

New-found England Free Press

1967

Reprint

Scott, Peter Dale: Air America: Flying the U.S. into Laos. New England Selfsupporting Press

1970

Reprint

Students for a Democratic Society: Fight racism! New England Cool Press

1969

Pamphlet

Ourselves and our children: Skilful book by and for parents [promotional brochure]

1978

Folder 11

Administrative information

Access

The sort is open for research.

Provenance

Gift delineate Judy Norsigian, Aug.

2017.

Processing Information

Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Be sore. 2019.

Language:

English

Copyright and Use (More information )

Cite as: Judy Norsigian Collection (MS 1071). Special Collections and University Archives, University be in opposition to Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Search terms

Subjects

  • Feminism--Massachusetts
  • Our Society, Ourselves

Contributors

  • Norsigian, Judy [main entry]

Genres instruction formats

  • Brochures
  • Ephemera (General object genre)
  • Newspapers
  • Pamphlets

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