Founders of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, circa 1975

Original founders of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, photographed in the 1970s: (L-R) standing in back row: Wendy Sanford, Paula Doress-Worters, Joan Ditzion, Judy Norsigian, Jane Pincus, Norma Swenson, Nancy Miriam Hawley; seated in front row: Pamela Berger, Ruth Bell Alexander, Vilunya Diskin, Esther Rome.

Co-founder Judy Norsigian is now executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves. A few of the other founders from 1973 are still involved in the nonprofit organization as contributors to books and other projects.

Photo credit: © Phyllis Ewen