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Dr Kate Womersley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Kate Womersley is a doctor and academic. Psychiatry Dr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Research fellow @georgeinstitute @ImperialCollege | Sex+gender equity Co-PI @MESSAGE_TGI | Ex @cambridge_uni @Harvard | she/her

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Book Cover for: Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began, Leah Hazard

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Leah Hazard
Dr Kate WomersleyDr Kate Womersley

If only more people wrote about the realities, politics and emotions of bodies as brilliantly as ⁦@hazard_leah⁩. My review of #Womb in ⁦@guardian⁩ today. https://t.co/0E6Ycez5pJ

Paperback, 2024

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon
Dr Kate WomersleyDr Kate Womersley

Bohannon calls on her astounding disciplinary range to tell this epic tale. Her writing ripples with references from literature, film studies, biochemistry... No wonder it took her 10 years to finish.The footnotes alone, which are… irreverent and funny, are a masterpiece.

Hardcover, 2023

$36.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, Andrew Leland

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Andrew Leland
Dr Kate WomersleyDr Kate Womersley

This book invites us all to rethink what it means to desire, to read, to be independent, to sit with uncertainty and to assume a new identity. Leland models how we might accept inevitable changes in our faculties as we age with tempered apprehension, humour and interest.

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