everything below the waist jennifer block

Her first book, Pushed, led a wave of attention to the national crisis in maternity care and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Kirkus Reviews. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Pacific Standard, The Cut, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.

Jennifer Block is an independent journalist focused on women and health. She covers it all and then my teenager simplifies it in her “Teen Splain”. Jennifer Block leads us in a discussion of how we might help guide our teenagers to enter adulthood, eyes open to the possibility of improving healthcare for all people. Our teenagers are growing up in a world where feminism has some serious unfinished business in women’s healthcare. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block looks at the stories behind some scary stats to question why one third of mothers give birth by major surgery roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy and life expectancy of women are declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and relative to the generation before them. Stay curious.Īmerican women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. And then, at the end, my daughter will Teen Splain the issue. But what does it mean for our teenagers, especially our daughters? We will learn more today. I’d suggest this is one of the most important books a woman will ever read. See More Jennifer Block about her most recent book Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution. I’m your host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and this is the Raising Greener Teens podcast, where we as parents take all the curiosity, self-empowerment, and other parenting tools that got us this far and apply them to understanding our teenagers better and hopefully shepherd them to becoming curious, self-empowered, caring and courageous citizens of the future. Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network:

Everything below the waist jennifer block