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Invisible : how young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships, and the pressure to seem just fine / Michele Lent Hirsch.
Van Pelt Library RA418.3.U6 H57 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Michele Lent, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sick--United States--Social conditions.
- Sick.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Psychology.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Sick--United States--Psychology.
- Women--United States--Psychology.
- Social Conditions.
- Sick--Psychology.
- Sick--Social conditions.
- Women--Psychology.
- Women--Social conditions.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women.
- Social Conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Lent Hirsch weaves her own harrowing experiences together with stories from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how health issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies. By shining a light on this hidden demographic, Lent Hirsch explores the challenges that all women face.
- Contents:
- Could someone love this body of mine
- The (foggy) glass ceiling and the wall
- It's cool guys I'm totally fine
- Why don't they believe me? or the case of the lady lab rat
- To raise small humans
- or not
- Sick like Miss America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hirsch, Michele Lent, author. Invisible
- ISBN:
- 9780807023952
- 0807023957
- OCLC:
- 1011543197
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