You feel so mortal : essays on the body
Shinner, Peggy2014
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| RYDE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 306.46 SHINPeople & Society | Available |
A collection of essays about the body: the author's own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies she came from; and the collective body, with all its historical, social, and political implications. What, she asks, does this whole mess of bones, muscles, organs, and soul mean?
Main title:
You feel so mortal : essays on the body / Peggy Shinner.
Author:
Shinner, Peggy, author
Imprint:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.©2014
Collation:
199 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Family feet -- Pocketing -- Debutante, dowager, beggar -- The knife -- Elective -- The fitting(s) -- Berenice's hair -- Leopold and Shinner -- Tax time -- Mood medicine -- Intimate possession -- Post-mortem.
ISBN:
9780226105277 (paperback)
Dewey class:
306.4613306.46
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
337970
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| RYDE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 306.46 SHINPeople & Society | Available |