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The Strange History of Suzanne Lafleshe: And Other Stories of Women and Fatness (Women's Stories Project) (Paperback)

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By Susan Koppelman (Editor), Kates Shulman Alix (Foreword by)
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Description


Spanning the 1890s through the 1990s, this unique, daring, and vital collection explores the many psychological and emotional tensions in women's relationships to--and perceptions of--their physical selves. Addressing the peculiarities, the delights, and the shames of body politics that reside in the flesh, these stories of bodies that refuse to be contained deftly and astutely comment on popular notions of acceptable body types and behaviors.

Often witty, sometimes painful, and always revelatory, the stories in this anthology offer a measured assessment of the rules, unspoken and otherwise, that govern women's bodies. Whether celebrating bodies deemed transgressive or simply acknowledging that such bodies exist, the volume's diverse literary representations of fatness render these bodies brilliantly, unapologetically visible.

About the Author


Susan Koppelman is a pioneering literary historian, acknowledged as the leading authority on the women's short story in the United States. Her ten anthologies include Between Mothers and Daughters and The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781558614512
ISBN-10: 1558614516
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publication Date: November 1st, 2003
Pages: 278
Language: English
Series: Women's Stories Project