" 'Ask Me About My Uterus' insists that doctors take women's pain seriously". "Abby Norman, Writer: The World Isn't Ready For A Lot Of What Women Want To Say". "Abby Norman Wants You to Ask Her About Her Uterus". ^ a b "Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain".Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest To Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (New York: Nation Books, 2018) ISBN 9781568585819.īustle named Norman as one of its 2018 Rule Breakers.
Erin Blakemore of The Washington Post summarized the book as "a torrent of disconcerting information about the continued struggle to understand and value women’s bodies". Kirkus Reviews described the book as "compelling and impressively researched" and "an unsparing look at the historically and culturally fraught relationship between women and their doctors". Writing for The New York Times, Randi Epstein called Norman "a terrific storyteller with a gift for weaving memorable anecdotes" and noted that the book "tells a story that will resonate with anyone (man or woman) who has ever experienced pain". Ask Me About My Uterus also critically examines the popular understanding of endometriosis as a "white woman's disease". The book connects Norman's personal experience to a longer history of medical practitioners dismissing women's pain, for example by treating their experience of pain as " hysteria". In 2018 Norman's book Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain was published by Nation Books. Norman wrote about her experience of endometriosis, including her efforts to get doctors to take her pain seriously, for Seventeen magazine, and started curating online essays on reproductive system health into a website called Ask Me About My Uterus. She attended Sarah Lawrence College but dropped out after experiencing severe pain that was eventually diagnosed as endometriosis. Norman had a troubled home life and became an emancipated minor at age 16. She is the author of the 2018 nonfiction book Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain.
Ask Me About My Uterus A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's PainĪbby Norman is an American science writer.
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