Abby Norman is a science writer and editor. Her work has been featured in The Rumpus, The Independent, Paste Magazine, Medium, Atlas Obscura, Seventeen, Quartz, Cosmopolitan, and Lady Science/The New Inquiry. As a patient advocate and speaker, she has been on conference faculty at The Endometriosis Foundation of America, Stanford University's Medicine X conference, and received health literacy training through The Dartmouth Institute. She is currently an associate science editor at Futurism and the host of Let Me Google That on Anchor.fm. She lives on the coast of Maine with her dog, Whimsy.
"Ask Me About My Uterus educates from the perspective of the ill-a
side rarely seen as in depth as it is in this incredible
read."--BUST
"[Norman] builds a convincing case that women describing discomfort
are more likely than men to be dismissed by physicians, but along
the way tells a story that will resonate with anyone (man or woman)
who has ever experienced pain.... [She] is a terrific storyteller
with a gift for weaving memorable anecdotes, some drawn from
medical history, others from recent scientific debates and most
plucked from her own travails... Norman's life is much more than a
disease.... [An] important addition to a long tradition of pain
memoirs. Norman shares a particular tale of suffering but expresses
a common frustration about the dearth of words to convey pain. Any
schoolgirl can talk about love, Virginia Woolf famously said, but
'let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and
language at once runs dry.'"--New York Times Book Review
"A fresh, honest, and startling look at what it means to exist in a
woman's body, in all of its beauty and pain. Abby's voice is
inviting, unifying, and remarkably brave."
--Gillian Anderson, Actress, activist and co-author of We: A
Manifesto For Women Everywhere
"Abby Norman writes powerfully about her experience living with
endometriosis and presents research on the disease and the history
of women who were brushed off by medical professionals. You know,
like how hysteria is anything that ails a woman, but the same
symptoms do not equate hysteria in a man. It's hitting all my
feminist and history and medicine buttons."--Book Riot
"Author and activist Abby Norman, has put decades of
labor-including careful, independent medical study-into studying
this phenomenon, as she describes in her book Ask Me About My
Uterus, both a memoir and a trenchant manifesto."--The New
Republic
"Compelling and impressively, Norman's narrative not only offers an
unsparing look at the historically and culturally fraught
relationship between women and their doctors, it also reveals how,
in the quest for answers and good health, women must still fight a
patriarchal medical establishment to be heard. Disturbing but
important reading."--Kirkus Reviews
"Compelling....showing the toll poorly treated illness takes on a
woman's life and the heroic effort required to contribute to the
world regardless."--Ms. Magazine
"Eye-opening."--Bustle
"From wandering wombs to ovary compressors, Abby Norman's book is
packed with fascinating historical detail about how women's bodies
have been misunderstood and mistreated by male doctors for
centuries. It is also an important reminder that there is still a
culture of silence surrounding women's gynecological health in the
twenty-first century, and that there is work yet to be done when it
comes to advocating for women's healthcare."--LindseyFitzharris,
author of The Butchering Art
"Journalist and advocate Abby Norman uproots the paradigm that
women must suffer their pain alone and in silence....a respectable
entry into this genre of women's pain....As Norman puts it, the
patriarchy of pain doesn't have to be the norm."--Pacific
Standard
"Norman doesn't sugarcoat just how difficult it can be to convince
doctors that pain is legitimate. Instead, she offers searing
commentary on how women have been conditioned to avoid seeking
treatment or admitting that we feel bad in the first place."--The
Cut
"Norman, now a science writer, articulates her own struggles with
clarity and calmness."--Washington Post
"Read this book, share this book with a man in your life and
consider this our full permission to storm off dramatically if
someone suggests you 'just take a couple Advil and quit
complaining'."--Purewow
"Required reading for anyone who is a woman, or has ever met a
woman. This means you."--Jenny Lawson, authorof Let's Pretend This
Never Happened and FuriouslyHappy
"Tell[s] an alarming story about how difficult it is for women to
access quality care; particularly those women suffering from poorly
understood autoimmune disorders.... Leave[s] the reader galvanized,
not despairing."--The New York Times
"This book deals with such an important subject. Abby Norman's
odyssey with her own health is sadly an all too common story to
those of us who suffered in silence for so long. My hope is that
anyone involved in women's health will read her story and revisit
the way we treat women and their health concerns in our
culture."--Padma Lakshmi, NewYork Times best-selling author and
co-founder of the EndometriosisFoundation of America
"With searing prose, science writer and editor Norman pens a
heartfelt medical history and memoir of coming to terms with the
limitations of one's physical body....A thoughtful read."--Library
Journal
Selected as one of the top ten titles in Lifestyle for Spring
2018.--Publishers Weekly
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