Review
Jenkins takes the reader on a tour of the modern Western world, offering us her experiences and emotional responses to both ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. She prompts us to question the way we live our lives, why we treat our bodies the way we do, where the divide is between the 'norm' and the 'freak'. The author is unafraid to examine her own inhibitions and courageous enough to allow her own pre-conceived world view to change. The strength of this book lies in forcing the reader to examine their own relationship with their body, and how social culture affects it. (Kirkus UK)
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Testing the boundaries between fear and temptation, Emily Jenkins takes us on a journey from ordinary physical experiences (going to the dentist, putting on stockings) to extreme ones (snorting heroin, head shaving). She interviews people whose bodies are radically different from hers and enters communities where people share unusual ideas about physicality. Her exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia goes from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation.
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