Minding the body : women writers on body and soul / edited by Patricia Foster.

New York : Anchor Books, 1995, ©1994.

xi, 321 pages ; 21 cm

1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.

"Reading" the body: an introduction / Patricia Foster -- A weight that women carry / Sallie Tisdale -- The floating lightbulb / Joyce Winer -- Mirrors / Lucy Grealy -- Coming into the end zone / Doris Grumbach -- The female body / Margaret Atwood -- Thicker than water / Kathryn Harrison -- Beauty tips for the dead / Judith Hooper -- First stirrings / Rosemary Bray.

Out of habit, I start apologizing / Pam Houston -- Department of the interior / Linda Hogan -- Beauty and the beast / Connie Porter -- Keep them implanted and ignorant / Naomi Wolf -- Inside a Moroccan bath / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Changes / Janet Burroway -- Fighting natural / Lynne Taetzsch -- Life-size / Jenefer Shute -- Carnal acts / Nancy Mairs -- Stiff upper lip / Patricia Stevens -- The story of my body / Judith Ortiz Cofer.