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Christina Crosby - Body, Undone - 9781479833535 - V9781479833535
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Body, Undone

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Description for Body, Undone Hardcover. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.

A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Sexual Cultures
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479833535
SKU
V9781479833535
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-23

About Christina Crosby
The late Christina Crosby was a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and the 'Woman Question' and published essays and reviews in Victorian Studies, PMLA, College English, and elsewhere.

Reviews for Body, Undone
"A Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the ... Read more

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