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In the flesh : twenty writers explore the body / edited by Kathy Page and Lynne Van Luven.
- Title
- In the flesh : twenty writers explore the body / edited by Kathy Page and Lynne Van Luven.
- Publication
- [Victoria, B.C.] : Brindle & Glass Pub., c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9185.5.B58 I52 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 231 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are always at odds with at least one part of our bodies. Have we inherited the family nose? Is there nothing to be done for our finicky stomach or our limp hair? In the Flesh is an intelligent, witty, and provocative look at how we think about - and live within - our bodies. The editors and writers in this collection describe, in many voices, what human bodies feel now. Each author's candid essay focuses on one part of the body, and explores its function, its meanings, and the role it has played in his or her life."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Face, hair, tongue ... Reading faces / Julian Gunn -- 120,000 strands / Caroline Adderson -- The tongue, from childhood to dotage / Madeleine Thien.
- Skin, eyes ears ... What I think of when I think of skin / Taiaiake Alfred -- Eyes / Trevor Cole -- The covert ear / Margaret thompson.
- Brain, hands, feet ... The human brain / Lorna Crozier -- Hand over hand / Kathy Page -- Pas de deux / Dede Crane.
- Vagina, penis, womb, breasts, ass ... My vagina / Andrée Alexis -- Twenty questions (Eight, really. It's never as long as you think) / Merilyn Simonds -- My womb works / Heather Kuttai -- Life with my girls / Lynne Van Luven -- My flat Cree ass / Candace fertile.
- Bones, blood, heart, back ... Cages of bones / Brian Brett -- Blood typing / Susan Olding -- A serious arteriopath / Kate Pullinger -- BAD back / Richard Steel.
- Kidney, pancreas ... The Frankenstein syndrome, or giving away the body / Stephen Gauer -- And inside, silence / Sue Thomas.
- ISBN
- 9781926972374
- 1926972376
- OCLC
- 759030025
- SCSB-13431525
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library