Garments Against Women [electronic resource]
Anne Boyer2019
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The multi-award-winning meditation on survival, care and the place of literature
in an unequal world
'Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange:
Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it.
Do you mean nothing at all - just darkness - or a world without objects?
I mean a world without things: no houses, chairs, or cars. A world with only
people and trees and dirt.
What do you think would happen?
People would make things. We would make things with trees and dirt.'
When the cold comes, when our needs announce themselves, it is with clothing,
with possessions, in literature, through dreams - in all the forms and
categories that shape, contain and constrain - that we keep ourselves alive.
Yet, in a society in which some are rich and some are poor, who gets to dream,
and who invents our forms? This is a book made of money and the lack of money;
of writing and of not-writing; of illness and of care; of low-rent apartments,
cake-baking mothers, Socrati...
Main title:
Garments Against Women [electronic resource] / Anne Boyer
Author:
Anne Boyer, Author
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (112 pages)
Audience:
College/higher education
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141990224
Language:
English
BRN:
434771
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |