Occupy this body
Subtitle: a Buddhist memoir
By: Sharon A. Suh
Publisher: The Sumeru Press Inc.
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Nepean, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781896559506
Subjects: Buddhists; Biography; Korean Americans; Eating disorders; Patients; Body image
Description: "'OCCUPY THIS BODY: A Buddhist Memoir' is the story of Religious Studies Professor Sharon A. Suh's struggle to overcome a childhood of forced-feeding, emotional neglect, and cruelty from her Korean immigrant mother who battled and eventually succumbed to her own eating disorders. As she matures and awakens to her own body, she must come to terms with her past suffering and how it shapes her experiences as a Korean American woman raised and educated within predominantly upper middle-class white America. In this memoir she shares her discovery, study, and embrace of Buddhism to help her heal from past trauma and lay bare the cultural silence surrounding abuse and mental illness in Asian American families."--