Eva Biringer: Unversehrt
*The event will be held entirely in German
On 7 November, Eva Biringer talks to Katja Lewina about her new book Unversehrt and how female pain is underestimated, ignored and devalued.
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 they are more quickly immobilised: 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? With Unversehrt, Eva Biringer puts her finger in the wound of a society that systematically devalues and simultaneously fetishises 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 anaesthetised or disqualified.
A co-operation with Harper Collins Publishers.
Thursday, November 7
Doors 7 pm / Start 7.30 pm
Kuppelhalle
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