Today, it’s more common for women to document their pain through memoir as opposed to fiction.

Books like Sick and Ask Me About My Uterus insist on gender parity in medicine, while also situating
women’s pain within a patriarchy that stifles and silences. Thrailkill encourages readers to try
reading “ The Yellow Wallpaper” literally. Gilman, she writes, wanted the story to shock readers—
specifically, her own doctor—into changing their treatment of women