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03090aam a22004218i 4500 001 CC9DE4B81D2811EDA31652FF20ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220816010056 008 220409s2022 nyu b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021060600 020 $a 1593767234 020 $a 9781593767235 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a RG483.E53 $b B65 2022 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220504 100 1 $a Bolden, Emma, $e author. 245 14 $a THE TIGER AND THE CAGE : $b A MEMOIR OF A BODY IN CRISIS / $c Emma Bolden. 250 $a First Soft Skull Press edition. 263 $a 2210 264 1 $a New York : $b Soft Skull, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Precipitation -- The tiger and the cage -- Putting the damage on -- Some of which may not be reversible -- The tigers come at night -- Without the gorgeous trappings -- The song that has no end -- The ship of Theseus. 520 $a "In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell-something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and faintingspells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. 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 the fact that it was discovered before the Civil War. Recounting botched surgeries, her own and those of others, Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by institutions meant to protect them, which protect themselves by controlling official narratives. Bolden also interrogates her own narrative-the story arc of marriage and children commonly imposed on a menstruating body. Sometimes, it is a painful site she mentally escapes. It is also a countdown she hopes to beat by having a child before a hysterectomy-only later finding language and acceptance for her asexuality. Through all of 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bolden, Emma $x Health. 650 0 $a Endometriosis $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women poets, American $v Biography. 650 0 $a Asexual people $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Endometriosis $x Treatment $z United States. 650 0 $a Medical personnel $x Malpractice $z United States. 650 0 $a Discrimination in medical care $z United States. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination against women $z United States. $9 84099 941 $a 4 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231031010437.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302015136.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221111010125.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20221018010256.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC9DE4B81D2811EDA31652FF20ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search