Eva Biringer - Unversehrt, Frauen und Schmerz

In the organizer's words:

"A man gets painkillers. A woman gets something for her nerves."

How female pain is underestimated, ignored and devalued. A feminist exploration

Men are supposed to be strong, women are supposedly not. Yet they have children and painful periods, they suffer more frequently from chronic pain and are more affected by domestic and sexual violence. At the same time, their pain is taken less seriously and is quieted more quickly: There are just over twice as many women for every man addicted to painkillers.

What do women have to endure and what do they do to themselves? Is there a specific form of female pain, and if so, where does it originate? And what could a world look like in which female pain is heard?

In her first book "Unabhängig", Eva Biringer shows how women in particular numb themselves with alcohol in order to be able to function in a world that is directed against them.

With "Unversehrt", Eva Biringer puts her finger in the wound of a society that systematically devalues and simultaneously fetishizes women's pain. In which men's bodies are still the norm in medicine, pain is accepted as a currency for performance and pleasure, while its involuntary variant is anesthetized or disqualified.

An autobiographical plea to take female pain seriously and a call to all women to transform it into something powerful.