Bite Your Friends Stories of the Body Militant

Free Download Fernanda Eberstadt, "Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant"
English | ASIN : B0C6WXHV2N | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
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.
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