Scarred
eBook - ePub

Scarred

A Feminist Journey Through Pain

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Scarred

A Feminist Journey Through Pain

About this book

PROSE Award Winner for Biography and Autobiography

Named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2023


Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction

Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain


What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism. Arguing that pain is not merely a state we are in, Scarred reframes pain as a "transnational feminist object," something that we can carry across international borders. Drawing on her own experience traveling across twenty countries within just over a year, Saraswati aims to bring readers along on her journey so that they might ask themselves, "How can I live with pain differently?"

By using pain as a lens of feminist analysis, Scarred allows us to chart how power produces and operates through pain, and how pain is embodied and embedded in relationships. Saraswati provides a heartfelt and engaging recount of her experiences while also pushing the boundaries of the respective fields her story engages with. She allows for renewed academic and personal insights to blossom by using a blend of transnational feminist theory, travel studies, and pain studies. Ultimately, Scarred invites us to reframe pain and ask how might we carry it in a more humane, life-sustaining, enchanting, and feminist way.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Author’s Note
  6. 1. All about Pain
  7. 2. On the Method of Transnational Feminist Autoethnography
  8. 3. How Can I Perceive Differently?
  9. 4. How Can I Work with My Body to Process Pain?
  10. 5. How Can I Practice Feminist Enchantment in My Everyday Life?
  11. 6. How Does Where I Live Matter to My Pain?
  12. 7. Home(ostasis) Is Where the Heart Is . . . Healed
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author