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Book

Girlhood : essays

Call Number

  • 814 F289 (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Physical Description

xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations ... Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny"--Publisher marketing.

Contents

  • Scarification
  • Kettle holes
  • The Mirror test
  • Wild America
  • Intrusions
  • Thesmophoria
  • Thank you for taking care of yourself
  • Les Calanques.

Subjects

Added Authors

Forsyth Harmon