Patricia Foster

Minding the Body (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture. An important and much-needed book for women who seek to understand their bodies and find independent, imaginative ways to cope with aging, beauty expectations beauty expectations, and ethnic comparisons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307794741
• Artikelnr.: 39249480

Autorenporträt

Patricia Foster

Inhaltsangabe

Patricia Foster
?Reading? the Body: An Introduction
Sallie Tisdale
A Weight that Women Carry
Joyce Winter
The Floating Lightbulb
Lucy Grealy
Mirrors
Doris Grumbach
Coming Into the End Zone
Margaret Atwood
The Female Body
Kathryn Harrison
Thicker Than Water
Judith Hooper
Beauty Tips for the Dead
Rosemary Bray
First Stirrings
Pam Houston
Out of Habit, I Start Apologizing
Linda Hogan
Department of the Interior
Connie Porter
Beauty and the Beast
Naomi Wolf
Keep Them Implanted and Ignorant
Hanan al-Shaykh
Inside a Moroccan Bath
Janet Burroway
Changes
Lynne Taetzsch
Fighting Natural
Jenefer Shute
Life-size
Nancy Mairs
Carnal Acts
Patricia Stevens
Stiff Upper Lip
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Story of My Body
Contributors' Notes
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