num_pages: 313
description: 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 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
language: English
title: Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
titlecomplete: Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
genres: Feminism, Gender Studies, Anthologies, Short Stories, Research, Memoir, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory, Womens
ratings_count: 268
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group