Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul by Patricia Foster, Doris Grumbach, Patricia Stevens, Lynne Taetzsch, Naomi Wolf, Lucy Grealy, Janet Burroway, Joyce Winer, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Judith Hooper, Margaret Atwood, Sallie Tisdale, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Connie Rose Porter, Linda Hogan, حنان الشيخ, Nancy Mairs, Kathryn Harrison, Jenefer Shute, Rosemary Bray, Pam Houston

Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Patricia Foster, Doris Grumbach, Patricia Stevens, Lynne Taetzsch, Naomi Wolf, Lucy Grealy, Janet Burroway, Joyce Winer, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Judith Hooper, Margaret Atwood, Sallie Tisdale, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Connie Rose Porter, Linda Hogan, حنان الشيخ, Nancy Mairs, Kathryn Harrison, Jenefer Shute, Rosemary Bray, Pam Houston

336 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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.Table of Contents"Reading" the body: an introduction / Patricia Foster A weight that women carry / Sallie Tisda...

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