Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

Winner of a Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Los Angeles Times, “10 June books For Your Reading List”

A critically acclaimed reckoning with the birth of women’s healthcare that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until now.

“[A] truly astounding tale. . . . Say Anarcha is an important book and deserves to be widely read.”
—The New York Times Book Review

For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.”...