Brutalities : a love story / Margo Steines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steines, Margo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steines, Margo.

Pregnant women--United States--Biography.

Pregnant women.

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Authors--Biography.

Authors.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Creative nonfiction.

Physical Description:

274 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : W W NORTON, 2023.

New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]

Summary:

"A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire, and a body pushed to the brink. Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce-and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Everything is contagious

Brutalities (I)

What to expect when you're expecting to possibly die

Sick gainz (I)

Your body is a bull's eye

A very brutal game

The fast slowdown

Working

Deprecations

Scales of hardness

Waddle like a cage fighter

In the clinch (I)

Skin hunger

Brutalities (II)

Can I shelter you?

In the clinch (II)

A clean, well-lighted place

Sick gainz (II)

A body that's been troubled

Epilogue.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781324050872

132405087X

OCLC:

1402118901

Publisher Number:

99994820501