The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis Bolden Emma
For readers of Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour's Sick, this exquisitely wrought debut memoir recounts a lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis, while speaking…
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For readers of Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire and Porochista Khakpour's Sick, this exquisitely wrought debut memoir recounts a lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis, while speaking more broadly to anyone who's been told "it's all in your head"In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived, persistent coughing spell--something the medical establishment will later use against her as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle.With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine--from a history of labeling women "hysterical" and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis,
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