Body Story

By: Julia K. De Pree

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Paperback | 5 June 2004

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208 Pages

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Body Story conveys Julia K. DePree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.In high school, the five-foot-ten DePree weighed as little as 114 pounds. She was too weak to raise her arms above her head. "In a paradoxical way, I starved my body in order to understand my life," she writes. "I had to place my body in suspension before I could move physically into sexuality. Starving allowed me to create an interim space between innocence and experience." DePree renders the starkness of anorexia along with the process of recovery, relapse, and, ultimately, redemption. She also tells the story of the physical landscape, from her origins in the Midwest to the American South, Paris, and the vast New Mexican desert, as well as the psychic landscape of her body as it encounters the joys and challenges of maturation, childbirth, and motherhood. Body Story offers readers a new way of understanding women's bodily experience, as it probes the mystery and the meaning of this illness. This evocative and often radiant vision is a unique window into womanhood and selfhood in middle-class, contemporary America.

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"Avoiding the cliches and conventions of the usual eating disorders memoir, Julia De Pree's Body Story captures the complexity and fragility of one woman's struggle to attain peace with her body. In language that is both spare and lyrical, De Pree creates a compelling narrative that is hard to put down." - Susan Bordo

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with Eating Disorders Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Medicine

Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Mind, Body, Spirit Thought and Practice

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Body Story	p. 1
Girl Body	p. 9
Virgin Body	p. 21
Starving Body	p. 31
Wedding Body	p. 57
Giving Birth	p. 73
Blind Spot	p. 129
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