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For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Contributor(s): Zackheim, Victoria (Editor)
ISBN: 1580052045     ISBN-13: 9781580052047
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
OUR PRICE:   $20.89  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2007
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Annotation: For Keeps is an inspirational collection by top women writers on their relationships with their bodies. It explores with awe and intelligence the surprises and challenges of our bodies--whether caused by illness, aging, injury, or life circumstances--that make us rethink the way we see ourselves, and even live our lives. These empowering essays reveal the journeys women take as they age and change in ways both good and bad. Sandra Benitez shares her struggles with illness over thirty years before finally and thrillingly exchanging pain and suffering for an ilesotomy bag. Kate Maloy reflects on the way her ex-husband's illness provided an epiphany about living life to its fullest. Liza Nelson writes about how her mastectomy allowed her to finally divorce the breasts she'd always loathed. Each unique story in this collection brings the reader closer to understanding her relationship with her own body--both physical and emotional.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Self-help | Aging
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Self-help | Personal Growth - Self-esteem
Dewey: 306.461
LCCN: 2007032583
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.71" W x 8.2" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:

Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all struggled, at one time or another, to make peace with the bodies that at times they don t even recognize as their own. From a mastectomy that renewed one woman s lease on life, to the emergence of gray hairs and wrinkles, each woman addresses aging, illness, injury, and life circumstances with humor and grace.
These empowering essays explore the many ways that aging can be a positive, revealing transformation; Ultimately, For Keeps challenges every woman to rethink the way she sees her body through various life-altering changes in order to lead a more healthy, satisfying, and productive life."