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Davis, Kathy, 1949-

The making of Our bodies, ourselves : how feminism travels across borders / Kathy Davis. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007. - xii, 277 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Next wave .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.

OBOS in the United States : the enigma of a feminist "success story" -- OBOS abroad : from "center" to "periphery" and back -- Between empowerment and bewitchment : the myth of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- Reclaiming women's bodies : colonialist trope or critical epistemology? -- Creating feminist subjects : the reader and the text -- Oppositional translations and imagined communities : adapting OBOS -- Transnational knowledges, transnational politics.

ISBN: 9780822340454 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822340453 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822340669 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822340666 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007014062

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Boston Women's Health Book Collective.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Our bodies, ourselves.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Psychology--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Health and hygiene--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change--Cross-cultural studies.

LC Class. No.: HQ1154 / .D34 2007