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Girlhood essays

"When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly qu...

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Main Author: Febos, Melissa (Author)
Other Authors: Harmon, Forsyth, 1979- (Illustrator), Febos, Melissa.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Subjects:
Febos, Melissa > Psychology.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Women > Psychology.
Girls > Psychology.
Women > Identity.
Women > Social conditions > 21st century.
Girls > Social conditions > 21st century.
Coming of age.
Autobiographies.
Essays.
Biographies.
Summary: "When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations ... Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny"--Publisher marketing.
Physical Description: xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320).
ISBN: 9781635572520
1635572525
Author Notes: Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart , the essay collection, Abandon Me , and a craft book, Body Work . A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The BAU Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's Quarterly, Granta, Sewanee Review, Tin House, The Sun, and The New York Times. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

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