CURRENT PROJECTS 
Boston Women's Health Book Collective 
Co-authors of THE NEW OUR BODIES, OURSELVES 
97 Nichols Ave 
Watertown, MA 0E17E 
617-9E9-0271 Spring 
y2ffieDlS_t!eilt!l_lDformatioD_QBDtti:- Our center probably 
the most extensive collection of women’s health information 
in the country, much o.f which is available from no other 
single source. In addition to established journals, books 
and other reference materials, the works of women’s health 
centers, social scientists, grassroots groups, lawyers, 
students and legislators give our collection its expansive 
scope and unique perspective. Each year hundreds write to 
us for information or come in person to do research and 
consult with our staff; use of the Center has increased 300 
per cent since 198S. The Women’s Health Information Center 
is also the base for our speakers bureau and other 
activities: 
d*=di.a Outreach. Our office receives at least twenty calls a week 
from the media. Complex health issues affecting women need not 
only a clear and accurate description, but also the feminist 
analysis we bring. Because media attention, to health issues has 
increased so much, our top priority for the next year is to 
establish a regular information service to 200 selected media 
representatives interested in women’s health. 
Nuestros Cuerpos t Nuestras Vidas ^ 
Responding to a lack of women’s health information in Spanish, 
the Collective since 1977 has published and distributed C^yesiLcs 
Cyerpos , Nue§tra§ Vidas , the U.S. Spanish-1 anguage edition of 
Qur Bodies, Qur.gel.yes. Almost 50,000 copies are now 
in circulation, many of them provided at no cost to family 
planning and community clinics, farmworker organiza- 
tons, and individuals with limited income. Over two 
thousand copies have been sent to a dozen countries in Latin 
America. Currently, we are working with several women’s 
groups in Latin America eager to undertake their own region- 
al editions in Spanish and Portuguese. 
A«igas_Latinas_En_Acgion_Prg_§alud .. Otherwise known as 
ALAS, this is a group of Latina women who conduct bi- 
lingual discussion groups and workshops on women’s health. 
Most recently they offered a program to women in prison and 
will be producing innovative bilingual women’s health lit- 
erature like their upcoming working paper on sexuality. 
Recombinant DNA Research, Volume 1 1 
1986 
has 
[ 214 ] 
