Alice Rothchild

Dr. Alice Rothchild is a physician, educator, author, and filmmaker her latest book is “Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician.” The book in free verse tells Rothchild’s journey from 1950s good girl to a reverent, feisty, feminist, obstetrician, and gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory sexist world of medicine. The book is “Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician.”

On this week’s 51%, we speak with physician and author Dr. Alice Rothchild about her new memoir, "Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician." Rothchild worked almost 40 years as an OB/GYN, taught at Harvard Medical School, contributed to the first edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves," and co-founded an all-women’s practice in Boston in the late 1970s. In Inspired and Outraged, Rothchild uses poetry to explore her transformation from a 1950s “good girl” to a fierce physician and activist.