{"id":68434,"date":"2005-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/executive-director-of-our-bodies-ourselves-to-speak-about-womens-health-at-uri-march-23\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T00:00:00","slug":"executive-director-of-our-bodies-ourselves-to-speak-about-womens-health-at-uri-march-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/02\/executive-director-of-our-bodies-ourselves-to-speak-about-womens-health-at-uri-march-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves to speak about women\u2019s health at 溏心vlog免费B站 March 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 14, 2005 — Access to accurate information about women\u2019s health is a critical issue these days, in part because the federal administration has removed information about teen-age sexual activity, condom use, and abortion from government websites, according to Karen Stein, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019d like to emphasize the timeliness and importance of Judy Norsigian\u2019s visit to the Kingston campus on March 23,\u201d says Stein, noting that Norsigian\u2019s talk will mark the 25th anniversary of the Schweers lecture series, and is part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Women\u2019s Studies Program at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\nThe talk will be held in the auditorium of White Hall at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

\nNorsigian, a co-author of the landmark book Our Bodies, Ourselves which helped to launch the women\u2019s health movement, speaks and writes frequently on a wide range of women\u2019s health concerns. She has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including \u201cOprah,\u201d NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show and ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe is a founding member and the current executive director of the Boston Women\u2019s Health Book Collective, a non-profit, public interest women\u2019s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization, which is now known as Our Bodies Ourselves.<\/p>\n


\nIn the late 1960s, Norsigian was one of a dozen women sitting in a church basement in Watertown, Mass. The women gathered there to discuss how they had been treated by some medical practitioners —hysterical and hypochondriac– and to examine the ways women\u2019s biology and health had been largely unexplored.<\/p>\n


\n Recognizing that there was an astonishing lack of clear, specific information available to women about their own bodies, Norsigian and the others began collecting expert opinion, medical facts, and personal perspectives and sharing them with other women. <\/p>\n


\nTheir work ultimately resulted in the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, which was published in 1970, and became an instant bestseller. The book, a medical reference and wellness guide that incorporates personal experiences with factual information, has sold more than 4 million copies and has been translated into 17 languages. Norsigian contributed to an updated version, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century. It was published in the late \u201890s and provides new information and reflects the concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds and sexual orientations. The newest edition of this \u201cbible\u201d of women\u2019s health is expected to hit the bookstores this May.<\/p>\n


\nNorsigian\u2019s interests include reproductive health concerns, the media and women\u2019s health, genetics, tobacco and women, women and health care reform, and midwifery advocacy.<\/p>\n


\nShe has served on the board of the National Women\u2019s Health Network for 14 years. Other board commitments include membership in the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, the Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research, and the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment. She is on the editorial\/advisory boards of The Journal of Midwifery, Women and Health, and Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care.<\/p>\n


\nShe has been inducted into the Boston YWCA\u2019s Academy of Women Achievers and was presented the 2002 Massachusetts Health Council Award.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Food and Nutrition Department and College of Nursing are co-sponsors of the event.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — February 14, 2005 — Access to accurate information about women\u2019s health is a critical issue these days, in part because the federal administration has removed information about teen-age sexual activity, condom use, and abortion from government websites, according to Karen Stein, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}