Tell us about the origin of this project.

So this book is my second book.

My first was called Unwell Women, and it was a history really of medical misogyny.

So a history, two thousand history of the ways that women have been oppressed, mistreated, misdiagnosed, mystified by the male-dominated medical establishment.

Now, while I was writing, researching that book, so often women's illnesses, women's health conditions, just their kind of states and conditions of life tend to be always, like, indexed back to their reproductive function.

Like, our assumed basic function as reproducers, as mothers.

So while I was working on this book, Unwell Women, I was also really interested in all these kind of messages and narratives around women's reproductive bodies, around w- but also around women's reproductive function in society.

Yeah, like control a woman's body