LEADER 04062nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910791350803321 005 20230725015456.0 010 $a0-8047-7372-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804773720 035 $a(CKB)2560000000011481 035 $a(EBL)537862 035 $a(OCoLC)638861399 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424747 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12191437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424747 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475147 035 $a(PQKB)11629667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537862 035 $a(DE-B1597)564729 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804773720 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537862 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389806 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769918 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000011481 100 $a20091014d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur bodies, ourselves and the work of writing$b[electronic resource] /$fSusan Wells 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-6308-9 311 $a0-8047-6309-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. 327 $tOur Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing --$tContents --$tFigures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Writing Our Bodies --$t1. A Rage for Inscription --$t2. A Different Kind of Writer --$t3. A Different Kind of Book --$t4. What Is This Body That We Read --$t5. Taking on Medicine --$tPostscript --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOur Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the first two decades of the pioneering best-seller?a collectively produced guide to women's health?from its earliest, most experimental and revolutionary years, when it sought to construct a new, female public sphere, to its 1984 revision, when some of the problems it first posed were resolved and the book took the form it has held to this day. Wells undertakes a rhetorical and sociological analysis of the best-seller and of the work of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective that produced it. In the 1960's and 1970's, as social movements were on the rise and many women entered higher education, new writing practices came into existence. In the pages of Our Bodies, Ourselves, matters that had been private became public. Readers, encouraged to trust their own experiences, began to participate in a conversation about health and medicine. The writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves researched medical texts and presented them in colloquial language. Drafting and revising in groups, they invented new ways of organizing the task of writing. Above all, they presented medical information by telling stories. We learn here how these stories were organized, and how the writers drew readers into investigating both their own bodies and the global organization of medical care. Extensive archival research and interviews with the members of the authorial collective shed light on a grassroots undertaking that revolutionized the writing of health books and forever changed the relationship between health experts and ordinary women. 606 $aFeminist literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMedical literature$xHistory 606 $aWomen$xHealth and hygiene 615 0$aFeminist literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMedical literature$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHealth and hygiene. 676 $a613/.04244 700 $aWells$b Susan$cPh. D.$01581202 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791350803321 996 $aOur bodies, ourselves and the work of writing$93862601 997 $aUNINA