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The Body Myth
- Author
- Milli Hill
- Narrator
- Milli Hill
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 16 July 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
The Body Myth will transform the way a generation of women think, not just about one single aspect of being female, but about their lifetime experience of the female body.
The female body has been misunderstood for centuries.
Declared defective. Pathologised. Controlled. Exploited
In The Body Myth, feminist writer and women's health campaigner Milli Hill exposes the stories we’ve been told about being female and replaces them with a new narrative: women are powerful, strong and perfect just as we are.
From menstruation to menopause, female biology has been misunderstood, medicalised, sexualised and sold back to us as a problem to fix. The result? A world in which women doubt their own strength, knowledge and instincts — while industries profit from their insecurity.
Moving from the mirror to the clinic, from the clitoris to childbirth, Milli reveals how culture, medicine and history have misread women’s lives and why reclaiming a new understanding of female power is long overdue.
Bold, eye-opening and deeply empowering, The Body Myth invites women to see themselves differently. Because being female was never the problem. It has always been the source of incredible power.
Readers can't get enough of Milli's no-holds-barred writing:
'I love your books' J. K. Rowling
'One of my very favourite birth writers' Ricki Lake
'Milli is a compassionate and passionate writer who puts women squarely at the heart of her endeavors' Emma Barnett
Critics Review
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'I love your books' J. K. Rowling
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'I feel so lucky to have read Milli’s books while pregnant, she completely changed my way of looking at giving birth' Ella Mills, Deliciously Ella
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'These are much-needed, brilliant, reassuring, pioneering, kick-ass books that all women – especially mothers – should read!' Emma Jane Unsworth, award-winning author of Adults
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'One of my very favourite birth writers' Ricki Lake
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'Milli is a compassionate and passionate writer who puts women squarely at the heart of her endeavors' Emma Barnett
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'[I]mpassioned but clear, concise and endlessly readable and puts into words loads of things you kinda vaguely thought or felt or wondered about and gives you, at last, a grip on them' Lucy Mangan
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'Enlightening. Enraging. Empowering. I wish I'd read The Body Myth in my twenties. I would have lived my life differently' Katja Kaine, author of Blood of Gods and Girls
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Details
- Author
- Milli Hill
- Narrator
- Milli Hill
- Duration
- 7 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9780008598990
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Feminism and feminist theory, Women’s health, Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, Gender studies: women and girls, Social discrimination and social justice, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Coping with / advice about ageing
Synopsis
The Body Myth will transform the way a generation of women think, not just about one single aspect of being female, but about their lifetime experience of the female body. The female body has been misunderstood for centuries. Declared defective. Pathologised. Controlled. Exploited In The Body Myth, feminist writer and women's health campaigner Milli Hill exposes the stories we’ve been told about being female and replaces them with a new narrative: women are powerful, strong and perfect just as we are. From menstruation to menopause, female biology has been misunderstood, medicalised, sexualised and sold back to us as a problem to fix. The result? A world in which women doubt their own strength, knowledge and instincts — while industries profit from their insecurity. Moving from the mirror to the clinic, from the clitoris to childbirth, Milli reveals how culture, medicine and history have misread women’s lives and why reclaiming a new understanding of female power is long overdue. Bold, eye-opening and deeply empowering, The Body Myth invites women to see themselves differently. Because being female was never the problem. It has always been the source of incredible power. Readers can't get enough of Milli's no-holds-barred writing: 'I love your books' J. K. Rowling 'One of my very favourite birth writers' Ricki Lake 'Milli is a compassionate and passionate writer who puts women squarely at the heart of her endeavors' Emma Barnett
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