Girlhood : : Essays

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Scarification -- Kettle holes -- The mirror test -- Wild America -- Intrusions -- Thesmophoria -- Thank you for taking care of yourself -- Les calanques.
"When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations ... Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny"--Publisher marketing.

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Feminist submitted by bcartm01 on June 10, 2022, 8:15pm I found this book on a feminist reading list and reserved it. I was pleasantly surprised by this collection of essays and how they all tied together. I loved the author’s honesty and appreciated her perspectives as a queer woman with a very complicated traumatic sexual history. I would recommend this book for sure.