The impact of the international best-seller "Our Bodies, Ourselves" on feminist thought.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: The Book and Its Travels
1. OBOS in the United States: The Enigma of a Feminist “Success Story” 19
2. OBOS Abroad: From “Center” to “Periphery” and Back 50
3. Between Empowerment and Bewitchment: The Myth of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 85
4. Reclaiming Women’s Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? 120
5. Creating Feminist Subjects: The Reader and the Text 142
Part III: Transnational Body/Politics
6. Oppositional Translations and Imagined Communities: Adapting OBOS 169
7. Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics 197
Appendix 1. Foreign-Language Editions of OBOS 214
Appendix 2. Books Inspired by OBOS 217
Appendix 3. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS in Progress 218
Appendix 4. Translations and Adaptations of OBOS Seeking Funds for Start-up 219
Notes 221
Bibliography 243
Index 273

Kathy Davis is a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her books include The Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies (coedited with Mary Evans and Judith Lorber), Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery, and Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body.