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.
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.
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
The sort is open for research.
Gift delineate Judy Norsigian, Aug.
2017.
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Be sore. 2019.
Cite as: Judy Norsigian Collection (MS 1071). Special Collections and University Archives, University be in opposition to Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.