TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crosby,Christina
TI  - A body, undone: living on after great pain 
T2  - Sexual cultures
SN  - 9781479808045
AV  - RC406.Q33 C76 2016eb
U1  - 362.4/3092 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Crosby, Christina,
KW  - Quadriplegics
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women college teachers
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Feminists
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Quadriplegia
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Social Scientists & Psychologists
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "[A memoir]"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212); Your puny, vulnerable self -- The event as it was told me -- Bewilderment -- Falling into Hell -- Caring at the cash nexus -- Lost in space -- Masculine, feminine, or Fourth of July -- Time held me green and dying -- Jefferson Clark Crosby -- Violence and the sacred -- Bowels lead -- I'm your physical lover -- Supply and demand -- Shameless hussy, Babe D., Moxie Doxie -- Anabaptist reformations -- Pretty, witty, and gay -- The horror! The horror! -- Living on
N2  - Shortly after her 50th birthday in 2003, Crosby was in a bicycle accident that paralyzed her, and here shares her experience of living her new life; In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation. Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of "diving into the wreck" of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies. A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire.--Publisher website
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