Please join us in this book talk with Alice Rothchild ft. Judy Norsigian, co-founder and past executive director, Our Bodies Ourselves and Steven E. Ostrow, Research Affiliate and Lecturer (retired), History Faculty, M.I.T.

“Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician” tells the story of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine. As a child who came of age in the turbulent 1960s, she was compelled to create a path in the often outrageous, male-dominated medical field, repeatedly finding herself to be a first: accepted into an ob-gyn residency, opening an all-woman practice, working with midwives, challenging the status quo, shaped by her early involvement with Our Bodies Ourselves. Rothchild's poems are steeped in the often-shocking history of medicine and the conflicted sexual politics of the second half of the twentieth century. More about Alice Rothchild

Judy Norsigian, co-founder and past executive director, Our Bodies Ourselves

Judy Norsigian is a longtime women’s health activist who first met Alice when they were both members of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra 1961-66. After Our Bodies Ourselves fully transitions to its new home at Suffolk University, she hopes to devote more time to various peace and racial justice initiatives, including projects in Armenia.

Steven E. Ostrow, Research Affiliate and Lecturer (retired), History Faculty, M.I.T.

Steven Ostrow taught Greek and Roman History at M.I.T. for some three decades before retiring in 2018, and has been involved in political efforts since the 1990’s aiming toward peace with justice in Israel/Palestine, including occasional collaboration with Dr. Alice Rothchild.

Food will be provided. For questions, email wgs@mit.edu

This event is cosponsored by MIT History.