The book Our Bodies, Ourselves 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. Our Bodies, Ourselves 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.Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book's global circulation. She demonstrates that it is the distinctive epistemology of Our Bodies, Ourselves, which invites women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical knowledge about their bodies and health, that has allowed the book to speak to so many women around the world. Providing a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, Davis finds in the processes of transforming Our Bodies, Ourselves the outlines 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.About the Author:Kathy Davis is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands

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