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Minding the Body

by Hnn lshykh · 1994

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Twenty intensely personal essays on physical and emotional self-image by women writers from a wide range of ages, races, and conformity.

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Table of Contents

"Reading" the body: an introduction / Patricia Foster

A weight that women carry / Sallie Tisdale

The floating lightbulb / Joyce Winer

Mirrors / Lucy Grealy

Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach

The female body / Margaret Atwood

Thicker than water / Kathryn Harrison

Beauty tips for the dead / Judith Hooper

First stirrings / Rosemary Bray

Out of habit, I start apologizing / Pam Houston

Department of the interior / Linda Hogan

Beauty and the beast / Connie Porter

Keep them implanted and ignorant / Naomi Wolf

Inside a Moroccan bath / Hanan al-Shaykh

Changes / Janet Burroway

Fighting natural / Lynne Taetzsch

Life-size / Jenefer Shute

Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs

Stiff upper lip / Patricia Stevens

The story of my body / Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Themes
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages
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