The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis by Emma Bolden

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis Author: Emma Bolden Narrator: Emma Bolden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine—from a history of labeling women “hysterical” and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis, despite more than a century of documented cases. Recounting botched surgeries and dire side effects from pharmaceuticals affecting her and countless others, Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by the official narratives of institutions meant to protect them. Bolden also interrogates a narrative commonly imposed on menstruating bodies: the expected story arc of marriage and children. She interrogates her body as a painful site she must mentally escape and a countdown she hopes to beat by having a child before a hysterectomy. Only later does she find language and acceptance for her asexality and the life she needs to lead. Through all its gripping, devastating, and beautiful threads, The Tiger and the Cage says what Bolden and so many like her have needed to hear: I see you, and I believe you.