Book Club

The Women and Health Initiative hosts a monthly book club discussion about literature related to women and health. Please consider joining us for any or all discussions. All are welcome to attend.

Please email the book club coordinator, Elizabeth Claise (eclaise@hsph.harvard.edu), for more information about the W&HI Book Club or to submit suggestions of future reading material.

W&HI Book Club – May 2013
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, May 21st from 5:30-7:00pm
NEW LOCATION: Citizen Public House, 1310 Boylston St., Boston, MA

“Beauty without the Breast” by Felicia Marie Knaul
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“Women Don’t Ask” by Linda Babcock and Sarah Laschever
“Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver
“This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz
“State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett
“Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank” by Randi Hutter Epstein
“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman
“The Cleft” by Doris Lessing
“I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced” by Nujood Ali
“Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks
“Mighty Be Our Powers” by Leymah Gbowee
“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
“Half the Sky” by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“The Patron Saint of Liars” by Ann Patchett
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese