Critical responses to Jeanne Hyvrard have generally categorised her as a writer of criture fminine andor autobiography due to salient features of her uvre such as the use of firstperson narrative a cyclic writing style and the quest for a female language. Within these broader considerations however a recurrent motif throughout Hyvrards writing is that of the body specifically the female body represented as suffering from different forms of physicalmental illness and emotionalsocial malaise. It is this primordial aspect of Hyvrards work on which surprisingly little critical analysis has been written that this monograph explores. It has been demonstrated that Hyvrards works can be studied as a unity as well as individually given that all of her texts form part of her wider theory. While this theory is often referred to in abstract terms as pense ronde pense globale or pensefemme this study shows that it can be more specifically highlighted as a theory of disease i.e. the intertwining of physical malady and social malaise medical terms and metaphor and particularly as a social theory of the diseased female body.