Body geographic
By: Barrie Jean Borich
Series: American lives series
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780803239852
Subjects: Women; Mind and body; Lesbian authors; Self-perception in women; American Authors; Maps; Psychological aspects; Sexual behavior; Childhood and youth; Biography; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Legend : my body as the Middle West; title: Map 1. Geographical solutions : a map of the West, with insets past and current; title: Map 2. Alabaster city's gleam : a body map of Chicago, with insets; title: Map 3. American doll : a map of Hong Kong imagined, with Avenue H insets; title: Map 4. Mapping the body back : an overlay map, with pages illegible or missing; title: Triptik : on a clear day, Middle Catalina : Los Angeles itinerary, with overlooks and day trips; title: Unmapped : cities of possibility; title: Map 5. When we were in the projects : a topography of my mother's and my Chicago; title: Map 6. Navigating jazz : a map to the end of longing, with insets of my father's and my escape; title: Map 7. Here be monsters : a cartography of the prairie, with overlays and panorama feature; title: Triptik : waterfront property : New Orleans itinerary, with overlooks and meanderings; title: Remapped: city in the middle; title: Legend reinscribed : the Middle West as my body; title: Postmetropolis : body geographic.