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Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant

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At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power. "I bite my friends to heal them."—Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCE From a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly brave men and women—saints, philosophers, artists—who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society's mores and entrenched power structures. The Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes who lived "a dog's life," sleeping, teaching, having sex in the public square; Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, two early Christian martyrs; twentieth-century prophets of bodily freedom like filmmaker-poet Pier Paolo Pasolini and philosopher Michel Foucault; Russian punk feminist...
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Year:
2023
Publisher:
Europa Editions
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9798889660071
ISBN:
9798889660071

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