Invisible

How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

Author: Michele Lent Hirsch
ISBN: 9780807023952

Already appearing on must-read lists for Bitch, PopSugar, BookRiot, and Autostraddle, this is an exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children. Though young women with serious illness tend to be seen as outliers, young female patients are in fact the primary demographic for many illnesses. They are also one of the most ignored groups in our medical system--a system where young women, especially women of color and trans women, are invisible. Michele Lent Hirsch knew she couldn't be the only woman who's faced serious health issues at a young age, as well as the resulting effects on her career, her relationships, and her sense of self. What she found while researching Invisible was a surprisingly large and overlooked population with important stories to tell. Miriam's doctor didn't believe she had breast cancer; she did. Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab while studying th

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publish Date: 2018

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Health & Fitness / Women's Health, Psychology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Health)