eBook - ePub

Body Horror

Name: Body Horror
ISBN: 9781558612976

Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Anne Elizabeth Moore,

344 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Body Horror

Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Anne Elizabeth Moore,

About this book

In this new edition of a cult classic, an award-winning journalist catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy.

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women's bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate. Moore, who suffers from several autoimmune disorders, examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist and aChicago Review of BooksNonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror >is "sharp, shocking, and darkly funny....Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, as well as illustrations byXander Marro, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.

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