Our Bodies, Ourselves

I still have to magnify the embarrassment slightly by a reminiscence.

As it happens, a book that was called, in England, Hans and Rebels, and is published here as Daughters and Rebels, was one of the first, so to speak, grown-up books I ever read.

The things I learned from it were numberless, but I'll mention one or two.

I learned a great deal about English social history.

before it finally found one.

And when the publishers looked at the sales figures, they found it had done jolly well, and had done extremely well in the South.

And it seemed strange that this book should do well in the South, until they realized that Daughters and Rebels was stacked with the Confederate bookshelf.

I wanted to ask you, I don't know quite how to put it, but what would you go to the stake for now? What's your good, brave cause at the moment? Is there something you especially strongly care about?

and there weren't any.

The first book on women's bodies came out, it was either in 63 or 64, Our Bodies, Ourselves.

But before that, there was nothing.

We had a little pamphlet in the fifth grade that was completely useless.