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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch
3 reviews
sshabein's review
dark
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.75
If you are a woman with a chronic illness and want to feel seen, then you will get something out of this book. Perhaps less so if you are looking for practical tips on how to navigate your feelings and level of activity, as this is mostly filled with accounts of women who have been failed by their doctors, friends, and significant others. Because of that, I HEARTILY recommend that anyone who interacts with chronically ill women should give this book a read. It may be illuminating for you, and it might make you treat the disabled/ill women in your life better. One would hope. Then again, we're unfortunately quite used to being let down.
I do wish this tackled the added complication of fatphobia in the medical profession, as that was a big gap in the otherwise quite diverse interviewed women, but the subject barely comes up. Besides that, while I was knowingly infuriated at times while reading because of my own experiences, I am glad I finally read this.
I do wish this tackled the added complication of fatphobia in the medical profession, as that was a big gap in the otherwise quite diverse interviewed women, but the subject barely comes up. Besides that, while I was knowingly infuriated at times while reading because of my own experiences, I am glad I finally read this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Mental illness
pucksandpaperbacks's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A must read!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Cancer
Moderate: Transphobia, Drug use, and Fatphobia
Infertility and harassment,scarletellajones's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Transphobia, Torture, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexism, Mental illness, Infertility, Body shaming, Cancer, and Chronic illness
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