THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Jane Kates Pincus
“It’s important to say that a lot of my work came from my awareness of my ignorance – how I’d been when I had my own children.”
Artist, Author, Educator, Activist. A founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, creators of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and a co-author and co-editor of each edition.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, September 2025
Photo 1. Jane circa 1960s. Photo 2. Our Bodies Ourselves founders, circa 1975. Back row (L-R): 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. Photo: Phyllis Ewen.
More About Jane:
- Jane Pincus official website
- Our Bodies Ourselves website
- The Boston Women’s Health Collective archives
- She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry is a 2014 American documentary film about some of the women involved in the second wave feminism movement, directed by Mary Dore and co-produced by Nancy Kennedy.
- Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970, Filmmakers: Catha Maslow, Jane Pincus, Mary Summers, Karen Weinstein
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 362