For many women, the healthcare system entails long searches for diagnosis and few answers. Join authors Gabrielle Jackson, Kylie Maslen and Katerina Bryant as they discuss their books that take on the male-centric world of medicine
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When I first started thinking that I needed to write a book about women’s health, my questions were too big and the canon too small to define what it should be about. Where to start in a world that knew so little about female biology, that made a taboo of subjects relating to menstruation, desire, pleasure or anything to do with female sex organs? I eventually settled on an idea that focused on pain – because I was in pain, so often – although it shape-shifted constantly. During the research and writing process I kept finding there was more to write, more ideas to explore, other books to be written.
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