Maya Dusenbery

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Maya Dusenbery is an American journalist and author. She is the executive editor for editorial at feminist blog Feministing and the author of the book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick.

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Career

Dusenbery has said that she became motivated to become involved with feminist movements as a teenager when she read about abstinence-only education: "I clearly remember in high school reading about the Bush administration restricting funding for HIV prevention to groups that were abstinence-only and I remember thinking that was the most absurd thing I ever heard, almost criminally ridiculous." [1]

Dusenbery began her career working as a communications assistant at NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health. [2] Since 2009, she has reported on issues of reproductive health, including abortion stigma, rape culture, and masculinity, for Bitch Media, [3] The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post, and Mother Jones (where she was a fellow in 2012) [4] and Pacific Standard, where she is a columnist. [5] [6] [7] [8] In 2013, she became the editorial director of feminist media outlet Feministing. [9] Dusenbery wrote a chapter for the Feminist Press anthology The Feminist Utopia Project imagining a future without rape. [10]

In March 2018, HarperCollins published Dusenbery's book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, an analysis of gender bias in modern medical treatment in the United States. [11] Dusenbery's personal experience motivated her to write the book: She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27 and was surprised to learn that 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases, the majority of them women. [12] Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, saying it "skillfully interweaves history, medical studies, current literature, and hard data to produce damning evidence that women wait longer for diagnoses, receive inadequate pain management, and are often told they are imagining symptoms that are taken seriously in men." [13] The book also received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews, which described it as a "sturdy account of how sexism in medicine is hobbling women’s health care." [14] Doing Harm was highlighted as a recommended read by Popular Science, Harpers Bazaar, and Bitch Media. [15] [16] [17]

Personal life

Dusenbery is a native of Minnesota and received a B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. [18] She now lives in the Twin Cities. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Feministing Five: Maya Dusenbery". Feministing. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Maya Dusenbery - SheSource Expert - Women's Media Center". www.womensmediacenter.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. ↑ "Micro/Macro". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Masthead". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  5. ↑ "Articles by Maya Dusenbery". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  6. ↑ "Maya Dusenbery | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. ↑ Dusenbery, Maya. "Maya Dusenbery". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  8. ↑ "Maya Dusenbery". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  9. ↑ "Maya Dusenbery Archive | Feministing". Feministing. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  10. ↑ "The Feminist Utopia Project". Feminist Press. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  11. ↑ Pai, Deanna. "Doctors Don't Know How to Deal With Women's Pain". The Cut. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  12. ↑ "It's Not All in Your Head: New Book Sheds Light on 'Bad Medicine and Lazy Science' Harming Women - Rewire.News". Rewire.News. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  13. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery. HarperOne, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-247080-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  14. ↑ DOING HARM by Maya Dusenbery | Kirkus Reviews.
  15. ↑ "March's Best New Books Have Something for Every Taste". Harper's BAZAAR. 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  16. ↑ "Five new science books you should read this month". Popular Science. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  17. ↑ "15 Books You Should Read In March". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  18. ↑ "Maya Dusenbery '08: Feministing Offline and Unfiltered | Women's and Gender Studies | Carleton College". apps.carleton.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  19. ↑ "About". Maya Dusenbery. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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