We’ve just come across this review in the NY Times of Ladyparts, Deborah Copaken.
“By objectifying my own body into its various parts — minus the misogyny — I could provide a useful microscope through which to contemplate the vastness of a whole life,” she writes.
But it cautions: There is a gratuitousness throughout, though: with anecdotes serving only to highlight the presence of semi-famous friends and an entire chapter devoted to airing past grudges against those who have diminished, in sometimes sexist ways, Copaken’s past works….Is it an exploration of the hardships of being a woman today, a take on the medical industry that doesn’t take women’s pain seriously, or is it an overindulgent effort to prove her worth? It is all of these things, but the latter undermines the former.
Check it out here