Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women

My eldest sister gave me this book in 1973. As the first person in my family to graduate from college and as a feminist, she believed she ought to help me add the feminist perspective to my worldview.

Looking at this yellowed paperback now, it's a sort of time capsule from that exciting, turbulent

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period of my youth when the societal status quo was challenged by a broad swath of rebellious young people. I became one of them, in my quiet way, and my critical, rebellious thought processes have persisted into crabbed old age.
OK, I admit this isn't much of a book review. Maybe I will rewrite later.

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