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Start giftingBody Horror
Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Length
8 hours 24 minutes
Language
English
Bookseller recommendation
“Anne Elizabeth Moore's essays on the myriad ways capitalism ravages our bodies are infuriating, uncomfortable, and surprisingly humorous. Her candid personal essays on healthcare, disability, and chronic illness are particularly resonant. Part history, part journalism, part social commentary, part film criticism, this book is all over the place, but in a way that worked for me. The illustrations are also spectacular. I laughed, I cringed, I raged. ”
— Lily • Quail Ridge Books
Summary
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 humor, 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.