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DORESS-WORTERS, Paula (b. 1938)

Oral Histories

OH 2027

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Paula Doress-Worters was a founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969). She wrote the chapter on the postpartum in their booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and then in the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970), She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.