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Unwell Women

7 min read 10 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A sweeping history of how Western medicine has systematically misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated women for over two millennia, revealing the dangerous consequences of viewing the female body through a lens of suspicion and control.

You’ll learn

  • How the 'wandering womb' shaped medical misogyny
  • Why hysteria became a catch-all for female rebellion
  • The brutal legacy of gynecological experimentation
  • How chronic illness in women is still dismissed today