A feminist exploration on how female pain is underestimated, ignored and devalued.
Men are supposed to be strong, women are supposedly not. Yet they have children and painful periods, suffer more frequently from chronic pain and are more affected by domestic and sexual violence. At the same time, their pain is taken less seriously and they are more quickly immobilised: There are just over twice as many women for every man addicted to painkillers.
With ‘(Un)Harmed’, Eva Biringer puts her finger in the wound of a society that systematically devalues and simultaneously fetishises women’s pain and in which men’s bodies are still the norm in medicine.
An autobiographical plea to take female pain seriously and a call to all women to transform it into something powerful.