[5] The health seminar that inspired the booklet was organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College.

"We weren't encouraged to ask questions, but to depend on the so-called experts," Hawley told Women's eNews.

Third, the historical lack of self-knowledge about the female body "had had one major consequence – pregnancy" and through greater information, women will have more ability to make proactive choices about when to get pregnant.

Wendy Sanford wrote about abortion, Jane Pincus and Ruth Bell about pregnancy, and Paula Doress and Esther Rome about postpartum depression.

[10] Dagmar Schultz brought the book Our Bodies - Ourselves to the Women's Center in West Berlin, where it was immediately translated and applied.

In 2018, the group announced that due to financial pressures, it would no longer publish new print editions nor have the resources to update its web site with new health information.

[11] In 2022, the Our Bodies, Ourselves began a collaboration with the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University and launched Our Bodies, Ourselves Today, a new website that selects and features the high quality health and sexuality information on women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

The discussion created a consciousness-raising environment, providing each woman with information that they all deal with when handling issues about their bodies.

The strong discussion supplied the women with the necessary tools and ideas that lead to the creation of their book that addressed issues surrounding sexuality and abortion.

The strategy of the reproductive justice plank was to establish the necessary rights and access for women to gain control over their bodies.

The writing style of the book tends toward a familiar, inclusive tone, with the authors referring to women and themselves as a collective group.