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TCC HOSTS AUTHOR OF OUR BODIES, OURSELVES ON OCT. 11
Public talk kicks off TCC Women’s Center theme of female health

SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – (Sept. 16, 2005) – How has women’s health care changed since activist Judy Norsigian co-wrote the groundbreaking book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, published in 1970?

Norsigian will address such questions during Tidewater Community College Women’s Center 2005-06 theme kick off - Women’s Bodies, Women’s Lives: Medical, Cultural and Political Perspectives - at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 in Pungo Auditorium, Virginia Beach Campus.

Founding member and now executive director of the nonprofit Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Norsigian began her lifelong pursuit of medical equality for women in the late 1960s. Still raising awareness of threats to women’s health, Norsigian has asserted in recent published interviews that pharmaceutical marketing of new drugs has tremendous influence and that media’s presentation of the ideal female body remains unrealistic.

A subject likely to be addressed in Norsigian’s talk: Our Bodies, Ourselves saw its first major revised printing in spring 2005, roundly reviewed in the media. The lecture is free and open to all.