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Sonya Huber¿is an associate professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Opa Nobody (Nebraska, 2008), Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (Nebraska, 2010), and The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.¿
Sommario
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Pain Bows in Greeting
What Pain Wants
The Lava Lamp of Pain
Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick
The Alphabet of Pain
Prayer to Pain
II. Side Projects and Secret Identities
My Alternate Selves with Pain in Silver Lamé Bodysuits
The Cough Drop and the Puzzle of Modernity
From Inside the Egg
Cupcakes
Amoeba Girl
III. My Machines
The Status of Pain
Peering into the Dark of the Self, with Selfie
Augmentation
Interstate and Interbeing
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys
IV. Bitchiness as Treatment Protocol
On Gratitude, and Off
Life Is Good1,2,3
Dear Noted Feminist Scholar
V. Intimate Moments with the Three of Us
A Pain-Sex Anti-Manifesto
The Joy of Not Cooking
Kidney Stone in My Shoe
If Woman Is Five
A Day in the Grammar of Disease
VI. Measuring the Sky
Vital Sign 5
Alternative Pain Scale
In the Grip of the Sky
Between One and Ten Thousand
Inside the Nautilus
Sources
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Sonya Huber is an associate professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Opa Nobody (Nebraska, 2008), Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (Nebraska, 2010), and The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Riassunto
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain.
