Ask Me About My Uterus

Abby Norman’s experience with doctors has been “strikingly and distressingly Victorian,” said Rachel Vorona Cote in NewRepublic.com. In a book that blends memoir and manifesto, Norman details how she endured severe pain for years that no physician took seriously, and she ties that ordeal to medicine’s long history of indifference to or crackpot theories about female suffering. “Too often, a woman’s pain is not merely met with doubt, but suspicion”—and the sufferer tries to just push past it.