{"id":944,"date":"2015-10-08T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=944"},"modified":"2015-10-15T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:23:24","slug":"joanna-kempner-on-the-gender-politics-of-migraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2015\/10\/08\/joanna-kempner-on-the-gender-politics-of-migraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Kempner on the Gender Politics of Migraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they suffer from an invisible affliction, people with migraines are sometimes suspected of &#8220;making up&#8221; their disease in order to avoid performing unwanted duties. Even within psychology, women were once suspected of self-inducing their own migraines as a result of their inability to cope with the chaos of daily life. These days, neurobiological research has helped to establish migraine as a legitimate disease, with causes rooted within the organic structure of certain brains. However, as Rutgers professor <a href=\"http:\/\/joannakempner.com\/\">Joanna Kempner <\/a>explains, even this paradigm shift tends to imply that the feminine &#8220;migraine brain&#8221; differs from the masculine &#8220;normal brain&#8221; in problematic ways. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/N\/bo18785835.html\">Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health<\/a>, she explores how cultural assumptions about gender and pain continue to inform how migraines are diagnosed, treated, and stigmatized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH115_Kempner.mp3\">Download Office Hours #115<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they suffer from an invisible affliction, people with migraines are sometimes suspected of &#8220;making up&#8221; their disease in order to avoid performing unwanted duties. Even within psychology, women were once suspected of self-inducing their own migraines as a result of their inability to cope with the chaos of daily life. These days, neurobiological research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1993,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[15,55,33],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}