 The 1970 pamphlet "Women and Their Bodies", soon expanded into the 1971 book "Our Bodies, Ourselves", was particularly influential in bringing about the new feminist consciousness.The 1960s counterculture embraced a back-to-the-land ethic, and communes of the era often relocated to the country from cities.Influential books of the 1960s included Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb".