Gabrielle Jackson is an associate news editor at Guardian Australia, and was previously opinion editor there. Before that, she was a senior journalist at The Hoopla. Gabrielle has lived and worked in the USA, UK and Australia as a journalist and copywriter. She currently lives in Sydney and commutes regularly to the Riverina district of New South Wales. Gabrielle was first diagnosed with endometriosis in 2001. In 2015 she was also diagnosed with adenomyosis. After writing about endometriosis for the Guardian 2015, she became interested in how women's pain is treated in modern healthcare systems and has been researching and writing about the topic since then. Gabrielle loves cooking and is a kebab connoisseur. In 2011-2012, she spent eight months travelling from Europe through the Middle East to Asia sampling and researching the history of the kebabs and their journey to the western world. She returned to Australia after being run over by a train in India.
'Gabrielle Jackson's reporting for the Guardian on endometriosis helped us ""blow the disease out of the water"", according to one leading specialist, turning what had been known as the silent disease into a major news story read by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Women responded vociferously and in great numbers, showing that Gabrielle's work had tapped into a worldwide need for information on endometriosis and other women's health issues. This book could not be more timely or important.' - Katharine Viner, editor of the Guardian 'Gabrielle Jackson is a brilliant journalist and a wonderful feminist-and incapable of being dull.' -Emily Wilson, Editor of New Scientist 'A major contribution to feminist writing of the 21st century. Jackson takes her own story of endometriosis, a neglected and mistreated condition, and builds around it a careful analysis of how women's pain has been ignored or belittled over centuries by a sexist medical profession. She then turns to recent developments, reporting on evidence-based research that is starting to bring better options to women experiencing chronic pain. Well written, and sometimes hilarious, with excellent chapters on women's anatomy and physiology, this is highly recommended reading for all women, their partners and families - and their doctors.' - Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at James Cook University and Editor of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology