{"product_id":"making-of-our-bodies-ourselves","title":"Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves","description":"The book \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research on women’s health. The book has influenced how generations of U.S. women feel about their bodies and health. \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e has also had a whole life outside the United States. It has been taken up, translated, and adapted by women across the globe, inspiring more than thirty foreign language editions.\u003cp\u003eKathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book’s global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, the group of women who created \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions, Davis shows why \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women’s health. It was precisely the book’s distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of transforming \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and diversity among women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221055852888,"sku":"9780822340454","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780822340454.jpg?v=1776933045","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-of-our-bodies-ourselves","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}