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This is collection of witty 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. She explores body image, gender, ethnic history, and familial legacy, looking at what it means to live in our bodies and to leave them behind
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You Feel So Mortal, Peggy Shinner
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- You Feel So Mortal
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peggy Shinner
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 199
- ISBN10
- 022610527X
- ISBN13
- 9780226105277
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Women, Short Stories, LGBTQ+, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Feminism
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- This is collection of witty 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. She explores body image, gender, ethnic history, and familial legacy, looking at what it means to live in our bodies and to leave them behind