A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (765 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479833533 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Catastrophe d. V. Edwards m. d. Beautifully written. Honest portrayal of relentless suffering after a freak accident: a horror story, not a neat narrative with a satisfying resolution as the author, an English literature professor explains.. love, religion For anyone seeking to understand the consequences of sudden quadriplegia, this book will serve well. The author, at age 50, has a bicycle accident that leaves her paralyzed. As a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, she is well equipped to tell her story, which is vivid in its description of her world before and after of her paralysis in relation to pain, grief, loss, gender, feminism, les. Life altering, brilliant and unforgettable. A. E. Gora Life altering, elegant, beautiful, terrifying, inspirational and unputdownable.
In that instant, she was paralyzed. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, i
"Perhaps the most profound lesson of Crosby's book is how lonely pain isshe is not the person whose suffering can be made into a vessel for other people's metaphors. Her book's drama lies in trying to decode who she really is."-New Republic"A potent memoir that rips open a most human heart."-Kirkus Reviews“Christina Crosby insists on the challenge of living on after great pain and loss and shows us what it is like to begin this altered life in one’s middle years. Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sen
. Christina Crosby is a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and the 'Woman Question' (1991) and has published essays and reviews in Victorian Studies, PMLA, College English, and elsewhere