One Body: A Retrospective (eBook)

Catherine Simpson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
288 Seiten
Saraband (Verlag)
978-1-913393-35-9 (ISBN)

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Shortlisted in Scotland's National Book AwardsBy the time she reached her fifties, Catherine had experienced period pain, childbirth, andearly menopause, alongside love and laughter, a career in journalism, and raising two daughters. Like many of her peers, along the way she'd dieted, jogged, sweated, tanned, permed, and plucked-always attempting toconform to prevailing standards of "e;acceptable womanhood."e;But when a medical crisis comes along, she can no longer pummel her body into submission and is forced to take stock.From growing upona farm where veterinarians were more common than doctors, and where illness was "e;a nuisance,"e; she nowfaces the nuisance of a lifetime.One Bodyis the demystifying, relatable, often hilarious, and sometimes hair-raising story of how Catherine navigates her treatment and the emotions and reflections it provokes. And how she comes to drop the unattainable standards imposedonher body, and simply appreciate the skin she is in.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: body acceptance • body insecurity • body insecurity, body acceptance, patriarchal society, gratitude, self-love journey, self-care, women’s stories, inspiring, uplifting, , mothers and daughters, honest, middle-age, family relationships, love, changing relationships, cancer support, cancer recovery, body positivity, body neutrality, learning to love yourself, grown up children, living with cancer, breast cancer chemotherapy, cancer journey candid memoir, self-love, self-acceptance, remission, hope, confessional, coping with illness, women's m • body neutrality • Body Positivity • Breast Cancer • cancer in middle age • cancer journey • cancer recovery • cancer support • candid memoir • Chemotherapy • Confessional • coping with illness • Fun • funny women • Gratitude • Growing up in the 70s • Hope • learning to love yourself • line drawing • living with cancer • mothers and daughters • patriarchal society • pressures on women • Remission • Scotland • self acceptance • Self love • when I had a little sister • witty • women's memoir
• ISBN-10: 1-913393-35-6 / 1913393356
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913393-35-9 / 9781913393359