"Everything Below the Waist" is a must-read for any woman who might ever need to see a doctor. Her 2007 book, "Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care," delivered a scathing critique of "medicalized" childbirth. Woman has to fight."īlock notes that "there are no sacred cows in this book," and that includes America's fertility industry.īlock was also editor of the revised "Our Bodies, Ourselves," the original women's health-care bible. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage.
Fascinating, informative, and appalling, Jennifer Block has written the most. "You may already be familiar with this story," Block writes. This is a book about feminisms unfinished revolution in womens health. She leaves the hospital with a colostomy bag. Two days after that, she is rushed into emergency surgery, and doctors find her intestine had been damaged during the hysterectomy. Her doctor sends her home with a prescription for anti-anxiety pills. Two days later she complains of severe pains, and her heart rate jumps.
Taking an investigative look into modern womens health.
In an opening vignette, a 46-year-old woman undergoes a minimally invasive hysterectomy. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution. "Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution," by Jennifer Blockīlock argues that 50 years after the start of the feminist revolution, American women are still second-class citizens when it comes to health care.
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