Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health

“The first part looks at the way in which women’s health has been weaponized for all sorts of purposes that have nothing to do with women’s health per se. Women’s health, she shows, has often been a ping pong ball that’s batted back and forth between international aid agencies and countries that are pursuing other agendas. She argues, for example, that the government of Rwanda has used a focus on maternal health to distract attention away from other less savoury things that they’ve got up to. It’s a hard read—not in terms of the language, as it’s very clearly written—but because it challenges readers to re-evaluate policies that on the surface seem entirely beneficial.” Read more...

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize

Rebecca Earle, Historian