Gena Corea is the author of several feminist nonfiction works analyzing the treatment of women within the medical industry. Through her writing, she seeks to bring hidden things out into the open, exposing and protesting the violence against women in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology and the new reproductive technologies. Her books include The Hidden Malpractice (1977), The Mother Machine (1985) and The Invisible Epidemic (1992). Corea’s writing has also appeared in numerous anthologies, such as Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (1994), Radical Voices (1989), Embryos, Ethics and Women’s Rights (1988) and Test-Tube Women (1984). Corea is currently working on a forthcoming book, Table in the Clearing: Stories of Sacred Jailbreaks.
Discipline:
Literature
Gena Corea
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Studios
Mixter
Gena Corea worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…