Women's Pain, Embodiment, and Disability Theory and Memoirs

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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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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 3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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The Glass Eye: A Memoir
The Glass Eye: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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Sick: A Memoir
Sick: A Memoir 3.34 avg rating — 3,386 ratings
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures, 8)
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures, 8) 4.02 avg rating — 523 ratings
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
The Camera My Mother Gave Me 3.40 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand 3.97 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System 4.32 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,042 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,368 ratings
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Whip Smart: A Memoir
Whip Smart: A Memoir 3.63 avg rating — 3,986 ratings
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Everybody's Got Something
Everybody's Got Something 4.04 avg rating — 5,146 ratings
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It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability 4.30 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) 3.87 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Pride Against Prejudice: A Personal Politics of Disability
Pride Against Prejudice: A Personal Politics of Disability 4.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman 4.30 avg rating — 295 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 3.99 avg rating — 49,909 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,738 ratings
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The Family Tooth: A Memoir in Essays
The Family Tooth: A Memoir in Essays 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating — 29,612 ratings
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Will there really be a morning?: An autobiography
Will there really be a morning?: An autobiography 4.11 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes
The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes 4.04 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History 4.58 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Accidents of Nature
Accidents of Nature 3.70 avg rating — 792 ratings
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America 4.04 avg rating — 6,731 ratings
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home 4.23 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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Illness (The Art of Living Series)
Illness (The Art of Living Series) 3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery 3.89 avg rating — 7,372 ratings
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century 4.45 avg rating — 16,559 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache 3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People 4.25 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,951 ratings
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The Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves 3.62 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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The Two Kinds of Decay
The Two Kinds of Decay 3.97 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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Tender Points
Tender Points 4.48 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood 3.53 avg rating — 24,869 ratings
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My Body Is a Book of Rules
My Body Is a Book of Rules 4.06 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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Heart Berries
Heart Berries 3.82 avg rating — 29,276 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,257 ratings
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The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
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The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness
The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" 3.29 avg rating — 134,384 ratings
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Pain Studies
Pain Studies 3.52 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Kiss
The Kiss 3.57 avg rating — 6,496 ratings
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The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life
The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Boys of My Youth
The Boys of My Youth 4.12 avg rating — 5,772 ratings
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Disability, Self, and Society
Disability, Self, and Society 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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At Home in the World
At Home in the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
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The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11)
The Rejected Body (Interaction; 11) 4.26 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health 4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water 4.20 avg rating — 15,681 ratings
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Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,468 ratings
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My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney
My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney 4.25 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Girl in the Dark
Girl in the Dark 3.52 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women's Worlds Of Pain
The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women's Worlds Of Pain 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,417 ratings
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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers 4.03 avg rating — 93 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,933 ratings
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Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis
Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 84,152 ratings
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Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives
Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice 4.53 avg rating — 4,859 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,834 ratings
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Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account
Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Poster Child: A Memoir
Poster Child: A Memoir 3.72 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness 3.70 avg rating — 3,050 ratings
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Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir 3.65 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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The Other Side: A Memoir
The Other Side: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future 4.04 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,147 ratings
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 4.12 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women 3.96 avg rating — 2,501 ratings
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick 4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America 3.49 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Carrying
The Carrying
by: Ada Limon
4.38 avg rating — 8,920 ratings
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Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves 3.91 avg rating — 28,924 ratings
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Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues 4.05 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
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Abandon Me: Memoirs
Abandon Me: Memoirs 4.20 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,398 ratings
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I Love Dick
I Love Dick 3.48 avg rating — 19,644 ratings
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body 4.12 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by: Eula Biss
3.94 avg rating — 11,712 ratings