Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
9 best books like Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine (Michele Lent Hirsch): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, Thick: And Other Essays, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Author | Michele Filgate |
ISBN | 1982107340 |
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*
Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
Author | Tressie McMillan Cottom |
ISBN | 1620974363 |
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals
Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Author | Soraya Chemaly |
ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Author | Gemma Hartley |
ISBN | 0062855980 |
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all.
Day in, day out, women anticipate and...
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Author | Maya Dusenbery |
ISBN | 0062470809 |
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today—leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens...
Author | Sonya Huber |
ISBN | 0803299915 |
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection...
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
Author | Darcy Lockman |
ISBN | 0062861468 |
Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.
The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist...
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
ISBN | 1551527383 |
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...