Women's Bodies

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,380 ratings
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Wit
Wit 4.14 avg rating — 17,229 ratings
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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 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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Not One of These Poems Is About You
Not One of These Poems Is About You 4.11 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,868 ratings
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Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations of Divine Love 3.97 avg rating — 7,748 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 285,037 ratings
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Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again.
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again. 3.78 avg rating — 754 ratings
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How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers 4.19 avg rating — 2,516 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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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine 4.05 avg rating — 840 ratings
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Handywoman
Handywoman 4.54 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating — 19,781 ratings
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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) 3.87 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Post Abortion Syndrome
Post Abortion Syndrome it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings
fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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More Than Just a Pretty Face: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Front of the Camera
More Than Just a Pretty Face: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Front of the Camera 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now
The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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How I Made It Out Alive: My Devotional Journey to Freedom Over Fear and Depression
How I Made It Out Alive: My Devotional Journey to Freedom Over Fear and Depression really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Migraine: A History
Migraine: A History 3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)
Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 8,891 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,111 ratings
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Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
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Accidents of Nature
Accidents of Nature 3.70 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Please Love Me at My Worst
Please Love Me at My Worst 3.88 avg rating — 9,490 ratings
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Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye
Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home 4.43 avg rating — 6,277 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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Parenthesis
Parenthesis 4.14 avg rating — 1,770 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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Tender Points
Tender Points 4.48 avg rating — 779 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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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating — 48,384 ratings
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El Deafo
El Deafo
by: Cece Bell
4.20 avg rating — 89,220 ratings
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life 3.60 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 6 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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Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying 4.02 avg rating — 759 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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Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS
Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS 4.50 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness
Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Between Gardens
Between Gardens 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature 4.11 avg rating — 91 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 Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,369 ratings
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On Being Ill
On Being Ill 3.98 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,224 ratings
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How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Disability, Self, and Society
Disability, Self, and Society 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Body Where I Was Born
The Body Where I Was Born 3.86 avg rating — 5,722 ratings
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God of Shadows: Poems
God of Shadows: Poems 3.97 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure
Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Survival Lessons
Survival Lessons 3.97 avg rating — 3,923 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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The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns
The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns 3.73 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness 3.94 avg rating — 8,801 ratings
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The Language of Water
The Language of Water 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder 3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Where the Words End and My Body Begins
Where the Words End and My Body Begins 3.95 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Let Me Sleep Until This Is Just a Dream (Norwegian Literature)
Let Me Sleep Until This Is Just a Dream (Norwegian Literature) 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue
The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue 4.34 avg rating — 134 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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Pain Studies
Pain Studies 3.52 avg rating — 212 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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One-Breasted Woman
One-Breasted Woman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cancer Vixen
Cancer Vixen 3.73 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning 4.27 avg rating — 209 ratings
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I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly About Love and Sex, Hair Loss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters, and Being a Woman with Breast Cancer
I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly About Love and Sex, Hair Loss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters, and Being a Woman with Breast Cancer 3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,825 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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Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation
Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation 4.07 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)
The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series) 4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health
Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health 4.11 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches
Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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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No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs 3.92 avg rating — 282 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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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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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care 4.16 avg rating — 5,456 ratings
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Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft
Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft 3.83 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Secret History of a Woman Patient
The Secret History of a Woman Patient 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber 4.47 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting 3.71 avg rating — 515 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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Reflections of the Moon on Water: Healing Women's Bodies and Minds through Traditional Chinese Wisdom
Reflections of the Moon on Water: Healing Women's Bodies and Minds through Traditional Chinese Wisdom 4.12 avg rating — 138 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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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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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice 4.53 avg rating — 4,859 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating — 29,612 ratings
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Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life 4.21 avg rating — 428 ratings
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When the Sick Rule the World
When the Sick Rule the World 4.16 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Slow Dance : A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability
Slow Dance : A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,796 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