Censorsing Women's Health, with CenHership co-founder Clio Wood
About this episode
The episode discusses the censorship and bias affecting women's health, featuring Clio Wood, co-founder of CensHERship.
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 The history of women's bodies is, in many ways, a history of what men decided women should and shouldn't know. From Aristotle's declaration that the female form was a "defective" version of the male, to Freud's wildly influential and wildly wrong theories about female psychology, medicine has long been shaped by shame and a striking resistance to progress. Today, the censorship has simply migrated from the anatomy textbook to the algorithm: the word vagina can get your content suppressed, women's health ads get pulled without explanation, and gynaecological cancer campaigns get taken down. This week we're joined by Clio Wood, women's health advocate, journalist, author of Get Your Mojo Back: Sex, Pleasure and Intimacy After Birth , and founder of wellbeing retreat company &Breathe together with Anna O'Sullivan , founder of FutureFemHealth, they co-founded CensHERship , an advocacy and research initiative…
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