When we don’t know and appreciate our bodies—when we feel disconnected from their inherent cycles and rhythms—our power, rights, and choices are more easily taken away from us. This disembodiment is part of what makes it possible for a male elected official in 2016—without shame, second thought, or consequence—to say of pregnant women, “I understand that they feel like it is their body. I feel like it is separate—what I call them is, is you’re a host.”3
