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An exploration of women navigating serious medical issues at an years where they're likely to be healthy, dating, having employment opportunities and children. Miriam's doctor didn't imagine she had breast cancer. She performed. Sophie navigates being the sole dark-colored scientist in her laboratory while studying the disease, HIV, that she hides from her coworkers. For Victoria, coming out as a transgender woman was less difficult than coming out as bipolar. Creator Michele Lent Hirsch knew she couldn't be the sole woman who's experienced serious medical issues at a years, as well as the ensuing effects on her career, her associations, and her sense of personal. What she found while researching Invisible was a amazingly large and overlooked people with important testimonies to tell. Though young women with serious disease tend to be observed as outliers, young female patients are actually the primary demographic for many illnesses. They are also one of the most ignored groups inside our medical system - a system where young women, especially women of color and trans women, are invisible. And because of objectives about gender and years, young women with medical issues must often deal with bias in their employment opportunities and personal lives. Not only do they feel pressured to seem to be perfect and youthful, they also end up amid labyrinthine obstructions in a culture that has one small notion of womanhood. Lent Hirsch weaves her own harrowing experiences together with testimonies from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how medical issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty requirements, workplace sexism, worries about romantic companions, and mistrust of their own body. By shining a light on this hidden demographic, Lent Hirsch explores the troubles that all women face.
