“What I’m Reading” is a series about books I’m reading that I may or may not review later
What I’m reading: Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer (Norton, 296 pp., $24.95), by Susan Gubar.
What it is: A feminist scholar’s memoir of the medical “calamities” she endured after undergoing the standard medical treatment for advanced ovarian cancer, known as debulking surgery.
Why I’m reading it: Few authors have written in depth about having advanced ovarian cancer, partly because few women survive the disease long enough to do it.
Quote from the book: “the state of contemporary approaches to ovarian cancer is a scandal.”
Probability that I will review the book: 100%
Publication date: April 2012
Read an excerpt from Memoir of a Debulked Woman or learn more about the book.
About the author: Gubar co-write The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, a book widely used in college classes.
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