Body Work

  • Body Work
    By Hollis Seamon

    Body Work

  • Body Work
    By Fiona Brand

    Witnessing her mother's murder twenty-five years ago, which led to complete memory loss, best-selling novelist Jane Gale finds the present and past colliding when a photograph leads her to Louisiana where a killer waits to finish what he ...

  • Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
    By Melissa Febos

    Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas—and occasional notes of caution—to anyone who has ever hoped to see themselves in a story.

  • Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
    By Melissa Febos

    With candor and clarity, Melissa Febos explores the complexities of writing courageously and honestly about our lives.' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild 'Body Work is the most necessary book about memoir I've read.

  • Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture
    By Debra Gimlin

    Discusses the complicated emotional and intellectual motivations of women who strive to attain America's often unrealistic beauty ideals, focusing on a salon, aerobic class, plastic surgery clinic, and overweight political center as ...

  • Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
    By Sylvia K. Blood

    Penetrating beyond the usual dichotomy between experimental and popular psychology, this book illuminates some of the ways in which women's magazines have embraced experimental psychology's treatment of the issue.

  • Body Work
    By Sara Paretsky

    Bonus in this Edition: A Short Story Featuring V.I. Warshawski

  • Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
    By Peter Brooks

    The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering the body in order...

  • Body Work: Youth, Gender and Health
    By Julia Coffey

    This book explores young people’s understandings of their bodies in the context of gender and health ideals, consumer culture, individualisation and image. Body Work examines the body in youth studies.

  • Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
    By Peter Brooks

    And he suggests how writers and artists have found in the woman's body the dynamic principle of their storytelling, its motor force. This major book entertains and teaches: Brooks presumes no special knowledge on the part of his readers.

  • Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
    By Melissa Febos

    Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas—and occasional notes of caution—to anyone who has ever hoped to see themselves in a story.

  • Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture
    By Debra Gimlin

    The honest and provocative interviews included in this book uncover these women's feelings about their bodies, their reasons for attempting to change or come to terms with them, and the reactions of others in their lives.

  • Body Work
    By Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel

    Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in fifty years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately inter-related cases.