- Overview
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This book is about everything about women's health in each stage of their lives, told by a prestigious oriental doctor for women's health.
- Book Intro
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This book should be recommended to every family member: a mother who lost her memory of her first period, a daughter who does not know the pain of menopause, and men who live together with them.
Is a woman's body truly a woman's? This question has been part of the history of the women's liberation movement. Even though 100 years have passed since escaping from the corsets of the Victorian era, the political and social frame of a woman's body is still valid. The performances of discarding underwear that suffocate a woman's body and statements about birth control and abortion must be understood as self-decision rights of women. Debate and prejudice about a woman's body has a long history, even in the field of medicine, with one of the most noted examples being the diagnosis of diseases based on symptoms found in men. From the west to the east, the pain experienced by women has occasionally been considered exaggeration, hysteria or even imaginary. Dr. Feminist is a nickname the writer used online for a long time, and it reflects the awareness about political, social and historical aspects the writer has. While working as an oriental doctor specializing in infertility, the writer went on a journey to Britain to find an answer to the "ultimate cause" that makes women sick and studied medical anthropology. Currently she is continuing her career as an oriental medicine doctor and a writer, focusing on a woman's body from an anthropological perspective based on the history of human evolution, culture and social environments. This book is not a book that simply lists secrets and methods of oriental medicine that make a woman's body healthier. It argues that women must understand and take back their bodies based on anthropological insight by removing the various social suspicions that surround a woman's body.
- About the Author
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Mun Hyeonju
Mun Hyeonju (F) is known as "Dr. Feminist" online, and she has been engaging in medical practice and writing with the belief that a society with gender equality will be able to to help foster healthier minds and bodies for women, as well as the health of the overall society. In 2012, she went abroad to find answers about the ultimate cause of sickness in women, and she acquired a Master's degree in medical anthropology from Durham University. With a PhD in Oriental Medicine, she has been practicing at Womb Women's Oriental Clinic as an oriental gynecology specialist since 2003. She has written the book Womb Story: Infertility Is Not a Disease.