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A review by readerwhy
Body Work by Melissa Febos
5.0
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"Expressive writing about trauma strengthens the immune system, decreases obsessive thinking, and contributes to the overall health of the writers.”
"[b]ias against personal writing is often a sexist mechanism, founded on the false binary between the emotional (female) and the intellectual (male), and intended to subordinate the former.
"[r]esistance to the lived stories of women, and those of all oppressed people is a resistance to justice.“
"Those who benefit from the inequities of our society resist the stories of people whose suffering is in large past owed to the structures of our society."
"I'll say it again, because it bears repeating: the resistance to memoirs about trauma is always in part - and often nothing but - a reistance to movements for social justice."
"We have been discouraged from writing about it [trauma] because it makes people uncomfortable. Because a patriarchal society wants its victims to be silent. Because shame is an effective method of silencing."
"Expressive writing about trauma strengthens the immune system, decreases obsessive thinking, and contributes to the overall health of the writers.”
"[b]ias against personal writing is often a sexist mechanism, founded on the false binary between the emotional (female) and the intellectual (male), and intended to subordinate the former.
"[r]esistance to the lived stories of women, and those of all oppressed people is a resistance to justice.“
"Those who benefit from the inequities of our society resist the stories of people whose suffering is in large past owed to the structures of our society."
"I'll say it again, because it bears repeating: the resistance to memoirs about trauma is always in part - and often nothing but - a reistance to movements for social justice."
"We have been discouraged from writing about it [trauma] because it makes people uncomfortable. Because a patriarchal society wants its victims to be silent. Because shame is an effective method of silencing."