Body Horror

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Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

By Anne Elizabeth Moore

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Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore is a compelling collection of essays that exposes the exploitation of women's bodies through capitalism and systemic bias. The book combines rigorous research with dark humour, exploring issues from the Cambodian garment industry and menstrual product history to gendered patent laws. Moore also shares her personal experiences with autoimmune illness and the challenges of the US healthcare system, offering a nuanced investigation into bodily autonomy under economic and social pressures.
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This book appeals to readers interested in social justice, feminist critique, healthcare inequities, and the intersection of capitalism and bodily autonomy. It is suitable for those seeking intellectually rigorous, historically informed, and darkly humorous essays on contemporary socio-political issues.

"This revised and expanded edition of Anne Elizabeth Moore's BODY HORROR: CAPITALISM, FEAR, MISOGYNY, JOKES includes seventeen investigative and personal essays on the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy and well-being, including essays on the Cambodian garment industry, gender discrepancies and patent law, and chronic illness"--

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Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women's bodies.

In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humour, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title.

Body Horror is sharp, shocking, and darkly funny... Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781558612860

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

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Addiction & Recovery Anne Elizabeth Moore Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD. She is the author of Unmarketable (2007), the Eisner Awardwinning Sweet Little Cunt(2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, and others. She is the founding editor of Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics and the former editor of Punk Planet, The Comics Journal, and the Chicago Reader. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, has taught in the Visual Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was the 2019 Mackey Chair of Creative Writing at Beloit College. She lives in the Catskills with her ineffective feline personal assistants, Taku and Captain America.