Vancouver Women’s Health Collective/ La collective de santé des femmes de Vancouver

This undated poster promotes the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, a feminist health organization providing services and information for women in Vancouver.

The central image reinterprets the composition of the Vitruvian figure, presenting a nude female body in a geometric framework that emphasizes proportion, embodiment, and autonomy. By replacing the traditionally male anatomical ideal with a female form, the poster visually challenges dominant medical and scientific representations of the body and affirms women’s control over health knowledge.

Displayed in both English and French, the poster reflects the organization’s accessibility and public outreach. It includes contact information and address, positioning the collective as a community-based health resource.

This material is reproduced here with the permission of  Press Gang, a feminist printing and publishing collective active in Vancouver from the early 1970s to 2002. Posters by Press Gang are held at the Simon Fraser University Archives.

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