Minding the body
Subtitle: women writers on body and soul
By: edited by Patricia Foster
Contributors: Foster, Patricia
Edition: 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature; Soul in literature; Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature
Table of contents: title: "Reading" the body: an introduction / Patricia Foster; title: A weight that women carry / Sallie Tisdale; title: The floating lightbulb / Joyce Winer; title: Mirrors / Lucy Grealy; title: Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach; title: The female body / Margaret Atwood; title: Thicker than water / Kathryn Harrison; title: Beauty tips for the dead / Judith Hooper; title: First stirrings / Rosemary Bray; title: Out of habit, I start apologizing / Pam Houston; title: Department of the interior / Linda Hogan; title: Beauty and the beast / Connie Porter; title: Keep them implanted and ignorant / Naomi Wolf; title: Inside a Moroccan bath / Hanan al-Shaykh; title: Changes / Janet Burroway; title: Fighting natural / Lynne Taetzsch; title: Life-size / Jenefer Shute; title: Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs; title: Stiff upper lip / Patricia Stevens; title: The story of my body / Judith Ortiz Cofer