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With The Tiger and the Cage Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicinefrom a history of labeling women hysterical and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis despite more than a century of documented cases Recounting botched surgeries and dire side effects from pharmaceuticals affecting her and countless others Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by the official narratives of institutions meant to protect them