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Author Series: Inspired & Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician Online
Inspired and Outraged is the intimate memoir of Alice Rothchild from her adolescence to her mid-40s and the experiences that contributed to her passion and power as a doctor, an activist, and a woman. Compiling stories of her life in verse, Rothchild explores the events of her childhood, her training as an obstetrician-gynecologist, and her discovery of feminism as a guiding force in her life. The book offers her vulnerable insights into the sexist – and often contradictory – world of medicine and how she forged a new, womxn-centered healthcare path. Her personal perspective reveals the many mundane to outrageous challenges that she faced which led to her embrace of liberation politics in the 1960s and beyond. The book’s free verse construction uses poetry to express the important moments that not only touch the mind but also a cauldron of feelings. Rothchild’s voice encapsulates her perseverance in the face of the male-dominated medical world and the shifting sexual politics of the late twentieth century. This memoir is both a record of the past and an urgent call to action.
Alice Rothchild is a physician, author, and filmmaker who loves storytelling that pushes boundaries and engages in unexpected conversations. She practiced obstetrics and gynecology for almost 40 years and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harvard Medical School. She received Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston’s Women Doctors Award, was named in Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975, had her portrait painted for Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth project, and was named a Peace Pioneer by the American Jewish Peace Archive.