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Ladyparts : a memoir
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Ladyparts : a memoir
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Physical Description:
xviii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Twenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dying- literally- on sexism's battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital . . . in an UberPool. Ladyparts is her irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce, solo motherhood, healthcare Frogger, unaffordable childcare, shady landlords, her father's death, college tuitions, sexual harassment, corporate indifference, ageism, sexism, and plain old bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses, one atop the other, which provide the book's narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs. She bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setback- she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent; sells her soul for health insurance; turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser is nominated to the White House, but in her slippery struggle to survive a steep plunge off the middle-class ladder, she is suddenly awoken to what it means to have no safety net. Side-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American, Ladyparts is an era-defining memoir for our time.
Contents:
Fireworks -- Lunch with Nora, Fred's -- That clear blue morning -- Lunch with Nora, East Hampton -- Empathy -- Escape -- Lunch with Nora, E.A.T. -- Where's the husband? -- Landslide -- Chiaroscuro -- Yes, and ... -- Everyday health -- In flagrante delicto -- You won the lottery! -- Inwood -- Money -- At the still point of the turning world -- Bad judgement -- Unrequited -- The Church for Wayward Hearts -- Lunch with Ken -- Kind of a Tinder date and kind of not -- Durkheim -- Public relations -- Private relations -- On-ramp -- Younger -- ENFP -- Little Buddha -- Bloody Mother's Day -- Blue -- My day in court (my afternoon in hospital) -- Empty brain -- #MeToo -- Cognitive health -- Fuck your dumb fire -- I can't breathe -- We can't breathe -- Fireworks redeux.
Publication Info:
New York : Random House, 2021.
Subject:
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors -- Biography
Authors -- Biography
Photojournalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- Health and hygiene
Body image in women
Copaken, Deborah
Kogan, Deborah Copaken
American authors
Authors -- Biography -- Marriage
News photographers
Newsreel photographers
Photo-journalists
Press photographers
Women as photographers
Health of women
Women -- Hygiene
SAILS ISBN:
9781984855473