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When we meet a young woman with a serious illness, we tend to label her an outlier. But while we might think of young female patients as anomalies, they are, statistically, the primary demographic for many major illnesses. And they are also one of the most overlooked populations in our health-care system--a system that not only ignores young women to begin with, but women of color and trans women even more severely. Weaving together interviews with young women who have experienced severe illnesses, insights from scientists on the study of gender and illness, and her own harrowing story of coming of age with serious medical issues, Michele Lent Hirsch exposes just how much our gender norms hurt women who are already hurting, and how sexism prevails both in relationships and at the doctor's office.

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Michele Lent Hirsch is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Psychology Today, Natural Health, and the Bellevue Literary Review. With a specialty in science, gender, and health, she has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Manhattanville College, a guest lecturer at the New School, and a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Frankie Corzo is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.

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