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Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

by Patricia Foster · 1994

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Growing up in the Deep South in the late 1950s, writer Patricia Foster was taught that a woman's body was her way of speaking her worth: restricted linguistically and sexually, women were to dress appropriately and decoratively and act…

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About Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Growing up in the Deep South in the late 1950s, writer Patricia Foster was taught that a woman's body was her way of speaking her worth: restricted linguistically and sexually, women were to dress appropriately and decoratively and act like ladies at all times. When, in 1986, Foster returned to the South to teach a course in women's literature at a state university, she was amazed at the dissatisfaction young women felt about their bodies - even after the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s turned gender expectations upside down. "I'd rather have five pounds off my thighs than an A in…

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