The Body Myth

Reclaiming the powerful truth about being female

Book cover titled 'The Body Myth' by Milli Hill, with an abstract red outline of two female bodies on a purple background.
Book cover titled 'The Body Myth' by Milli Hill, with an abstract red outline of two female bodies on a purple background.

The Body Myth will transform the way a generation of women think, not just about one single aspect of being female, but about their lifetime experience of the female body.

Moving from the mirror to the clinic, from the clitoris to childbirth, Hill reveals how culture, medicine and history have misread women’s lives and why reclaiming a new understanding of female power is long overdue.

Bold, eye-opening and deeply empowering, The Body Myth invites women to see themselves differently. Because being female was never the problem.

  • Something like The Beauty Myth for women my age and I mean this as high praise…Like Naomi Wolf’s 1990 bestseller, it’s impassioned but clear, concise and endlessly readable and puts into words loads of things you kinda vaguely thought or felt or wondered about and gives you, at last, a grip on them.

    Lucy Mangan

  • Enlightening. Enraging. Empowering. I wish I’d read The Body Myth in my twenties. I would have lived my life differently.

    Katja Kaine, author of Blood of Gods and Girls

Two women having a discussion or interview in a bookstore or library with bookshelves in the background. One woman is sitting with a laptop, and the other is holding a notepad, both seated in brown armchairs.