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First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
272 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
"Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." The way she has been seen--or not seen--has informed her lens on the world for her entire life... But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), she feels something in her shift, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she'd been denied and had denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a BeyonceÌ concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. [This] is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes."-- Dust jacket flap. |
| Subject |
Cooper Jones, ChloeÌ, 1983-
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Cooper Jones, ChloeÌ, 1983- -- Travel.
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Abnormalities, Human -- Biography.
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Voyages and travels.
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Body image.
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Aesthetics -- Social aspects.
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Body Image |
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Voyages.
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Image du corps.
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journeys.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities.
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SCIENCE / Ethics.
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Abnormalities, Human. (OCoLC)fst00794451
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Aesthetics -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00798723
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Body image. (OCoLC)fst00835344
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Voyages and travels. (OCoLC)fst01169308
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| Genre/Form |
Biography |
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Biography.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Autobiography |
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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Autobiographies.
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Travel writing.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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ReÌcits de voyages.
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Handicapped women -- Biography.
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Women journalists -- Biography.
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Colleges and universities -- Faculty -- Biography.
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Handicapped -- Biography.
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Journalists -- Biography.
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Teachers -- United States -- Biography.
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Birth defects.
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Body image.
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Aesthetics.
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| ISBN |
9781982151997 |
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1982151994 |
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