Spanning the 1890s through the 1990s this unique daring and vital collection explores the many psychological and emotional tensions in womens relationships toand perceptions oftheir physical selves. Addressing the peculiarities the delights and the shames of body politics that reside in the flesh these stories of bodies that refuse to be contained deftly and astutely comment on popular notions of acceptable body types and behaviors. Often witty sometimes painful and always revelatory the sto