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Selected as one of the top ten titles in Lifestyle
for Spring 2018.―Publishers Weekly
"Required reading for anyone who is a woman, or has ever met a
woman. This means you."―Jenny Lawson, author of Let's Pretend
This Never Happened and Furiously Happy
"This book deals with such an important subject. Abby Norman's
odyssey with her own is sadly an all too common story to
those of us who suffered in silence for so long. My hope is that
anyone involved in women's will read her story and revisit
the way we treat women and their concerns in our
culture."―Padma Lakshmi, New York Times best-selling author and
co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America
"A fresh, honest, and startling look at what it means to exist in
a woman's body, in all of its beauty and pain. Abby's voice is
inviting, unifying, and remarkably brave."
―Gillian Anderson, Actress, activist and co-author of We: A
Manifesto For Women Everywhere
"[Norman] builds a convincing case that women describing
discomfort are more likely than men to be dismissed by
physicians, but along the way tells a story that will resonate
with anyone (man or woman) who has ever experienced pain....
[She] is a terrific storyteller with a gift for weaving memorable
anecdotes, some drawn from medical history, others from recent
scientific debates and most plucked from her own travails...
Norman's life is much more than a disease.... [An] important
addition to a long tradition of pain memoirs. Norman shares a
particular tale of suffering but expresses a common frustration
about the dearth of words to convey pain. Any schoolgirl can talk
about love, Virginia Woolf famously said, but 'let a sufferer try
to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once
runs dry.'"―New York Times Book Review
"Compelling and impressively, Norman's narrative not only offers
an unsparing look at the historically and culturally fraught
relationship between women and their doctors, it also reveals
how, in the quest for answers and good , women must still
fight a patriarchal medical establishment to be heard. Disturbing
but important reading."―Kirkus Reviews
"From wandering wombs to ovary compressors, Abby Norman's book is
packed with fascinating historical detail about how women's
bodies have been misunderstood and mistreated by male doctors for
centuries. It is also an important reminder that there is still a
culture of silence surrounding women's gynecological in
the twenty-first century, and that there is work yet to be done
when it comes to advocating for women's care."―Lindsey
Fitzharris, author of The Butchering Art
"With searing prose, science writer and editor Norman pens a
heartfelt medical history and memoir of coming to terms with the
limitations of one's physical body....A thoughtful read."―Library
Journal
"Abby Norman writes powerfully about her experience living with
endometriosis and presents research on the disease and the
history of women who were brushed off by medical professionals.
You know, like how hysteria is anything that ails a woman, but
the same symptoms do not equate hysteria in a man. It's hitting
all my feminist and history and medicine buttons."―Book Riot
"Author and activist Abby Norman, has put decades of
labor-including careful, independent medical study-into studying
this phenomenon, as she describes in her book Ask Me About My
Uterus, both a memoir and a trenchant manifesto."―The New
Republic
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About the Author
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Abby Norman is a science writer and hosts a daily
podcast on Anchor.fm. Her work has been featured in the Rumpus,
Independent, Paste Magazine, Medium, Atlas Obscura, Seventeen,
Quartz, Cosmopolitan, and Lady Science/The New Inquiry. As a
patient advocate and speaker, she has been on conference faculty
at the Endometriosis Foundation of America, Stanford University's
Medicine X conference, and received literacy training
through the Dartmouth Institute. She lives on the coast of Maine
with her dog, Whimsy.
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