The Body Business: Challenges Facing Women's Health Advocates Today (Humanist HERIONE Award) (Speech‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since 1971 Judy Norsigian has been part of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, also known by the name of its signature publication, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS), and she currently serves as the organization's executive director. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the groundbreaking book (now it its ninth edition), which has offered straightforward and detailed guidance on health and sexuality to women for the past four decades. In recognition of the pioneering role OBOS has played in women's health and well being in the United States and around the world, co-author Judy Norsigian was named the 2011 Humanist Heroine by the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association at the AHA's 70th annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 9, 2011. The following article was adapted from the talk she gave in accepting the award.