{"product_id":"searching-for-ourselves-in-a-system-built-without-us","title":"Searching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eSearching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eBy Gayathri Delanerolle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat happens when the systems designed to care for us were never built with us in mind?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn this powerful and deeply personal book, Gayathri Delanerolle explores the hidden realities of medical menopause, endometriosis, miscarriage, infertility, hormonal health, and the emotional cost of living inside systems that too often dismiss women's pain. Drawing from lived experience, scientific insight, and a fierce commitment to women's health equity, this book challenges long-standing assumptions in medicine, research, and society.  Part memoir, part manifesto, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eSearching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e takes readers through the physical, psychological, and sociocultural realities of medical menopause and reproductive health inequality. From hot flushes and brain fog to fertility grief, workplace pressures, identity shifts, and systemic bias in healthcare, this book gives voice to experiences millions endure silently.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is not simply a book about menopause. It is a book about power, survival, identity, and the urgent need to redesign women's healthcare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eWritten with honesty, vulnerability, and scientific clarity, Gayathri Delanerolle combines personal storytelling with evidence-based reflection to reveal how women's bodies have historically been misunderstood, under-researched, and marginalised within clinical systems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eFor anyone who has ever felt unheard in a clinic room, dismissed in pain, or forced to endure in silence - this book will feel like recognition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003ePraised by early readers as:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; list-style: outside; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; list-style: outside;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A remarkable book'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Exquisitely written, unflinching and fiercely authentic'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A framework for an equitable future.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis book speaks not only to clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, and families. It is a call to listen differently, think differently, and build healthcare systems that finally see women fully.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSearching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eBy Gayathri Delanerolle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat happens when the systems designed to care for us were never built with us in mind?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn this powerful and deeply personal book, Gayathri Delanerolle explores the hidden realities of medical menopause, endometriosis, miscarriage, infertility, hormonal health, and the emotional cost of living inside systems that too often dismiss women's pain. Drawing from lived experience, scientific insight, and a fierce commitment to women's health equity, this book challenges long-standing assumptions in medicine, research, and society.  Part memoir, part manifesto, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eSearching for Ourselves in a System Built Without Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e takes readers through the physical, psychological, and sociocultural realities of medical menopause and reproductive health inequality. From hot flushes and brain fog to fertility grief, workplace pressures, identity shifts, and systemic bias in healthcare, this book gives voice to experiences millions endure silently.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is not simply a book about menopause. It is a book about power, survival, identity, and the urgent need to redesign women's healthcare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eWritten with honesty, vulnerability, and scientific clarity, Gayathri Delanerolle combines personal storytelling with evidence-based reflection to reveal how women's bodies have historically been misunderstood, under-researched, and marginalised within clinical systems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eFor anyone who has ever felt unheard in a clinic room, dismissed in pain, or forced to endure in silence - this book will feel like recognition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003ePraised by early readers as:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; list-style: outside; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; list-style: outside;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A remarkable book'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Exquisitely written, unflinching and fiercely authentic'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A framework for an equitable future.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #535a62; color: #535a62; font-family: \" open sans sans-serif\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis book speaks not only to clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, and families. It is a call to listen differently, think differently, and build healthcare systems that finally see women fully. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gayathri Delanerolle","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":66832918479152,"sku":"9781837097425","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/searching-for-ourselves-in-a-system-built-without-us","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}