Invisible : how young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships, and the pressure to seem just fine

Summary: Lent Hirsch weaves her own harrowing experiences together with stories from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how health issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies. By shining a light on this hidden demographic, Lent Hirsch explores the challenges that all women face.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807029817
Physical Description: 230 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Could someone love this body of mine -- The foggy glass ceiling and the wall -- It's cool guys I'm totally fine -- Why don't they believe me or, the case of the lady lab rat -- To raise small humans or not -- Sick like Miss America.