Gabrielle Jackson is the opinion editor for Guardian Australia. She was previously a senior reporter for The Hoopla and her work has appeared in the Village Voice, CNN, The Sydney Morning Herald and New Matilda.
Gabrielle Jackson pulls no punches in this timely and
anger-inducing book which explores how our culture treats women in
medical and social contexts. From medical research to bedside
manners, women's pain and disease is not taken as seriously as
men's (one in 10 women worldwide have endometriosis 'the silent
disease' and yet it receives just 5% of the funding of diabetes).
Exploring how the patriarchy has systematically swept aside women's
needs both historically and now, Jackson rightly calls for a huge
cultural shift backing up her research with moving first-hand
accounts and shocking statistics.
*Stylist*
What Jackson details in her book is how women are - historically,
and to the present day - under-served by the systems that should
keep us healthy, happy and informed about our bodies.
*Metro*
This book could not be more timely or important.
*the Guardian*
Gabrielle Jackson is a brilliant journalist and a wonderful
feminist, and incapable of being dull.
*New Scientist*
A major contribution to feminist writing of the 21st century
*Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James
Cook University*
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