Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Twenty intensely personal essays on physical and emotional self-image by women writers from a wide range of ages, races, and conformity.
Table of Contents
“Reading” the body: an introduction / Patricia Foster
A weight that women carry / Sallie Tisdale
The floating lightbulb / Joyce Winer
Mirrors / Lucy Grealy
Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach
The female body / Margaret Atwood
Thicker than water / Kathryn Harrison
Beauty tips for the dead / Judith Hooper
First stirrings / Rosemary Bray
Out of habit, I start apologizing / Pam Houston
Department of the interior / Linda Hogan
Beauty and the beast / Connie Porter
Keep them implanted and ignorant / Naomi Wolf
Inside a Moroccan bath / Hanan al-Shaykh
Changes / Janet Burroway
Fighting natural / Lynne Taetzsch
Life-size / Jenefer Shute
Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs
Stiff upper lip / Patricia Stevens
The story of my body / Judith Ortiz Cofer