Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women

Feminist Literature 60's Women's Issues - Health Fitness. This book was one of the Feminists Movement bibles- instrumental in changing the doctor patient relationship between a woman and her health care providers. Education about the issues provided the catalyst in tipping the balance of power in favor of the woman purchasing medical advice or treatment. This book helped reduce the image of doctors as all powerful authority figures who were not to be challenged.