| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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age Children |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Finding her here / Jayne Relaford Brown -- History of the body / Linda Nemec Foster -- Applewood / Barbara Crooker -- Room to love / Jane Blue -- Fourteen / Pamela Ditchoff -- Foot loose / Deborah Shouse -- Ceremony / Suellen Wedmore -- Butchering time / Carol Newman -- Womansong / Marilyn Johnson -- A place to rest / Chris Mandell -- Everything that falls has wings / Kathy M. Parkman -- The fat lady speaks / Joanne McCarthy -- Rhonda, from the runway at Diamond Don's / Liz Abrams-Morley -- Shadow bush / Judith Infante -- Matchmaking / Stephany Brown -- Response to a reading / Michele Wolf -- What I know from noses / Anndee Hochman -- The makeup poem / Jan Epton Seale -- Ode to grey hair / Alisa Wolf -- Shell life / Shirley Vogler Meister -- La Maja Desnuda / Anne M. Candelaria -- Living the green life / Maril Crabtree -- The spearthrower / Lillian Morrison -- The marathon / Marnie Mueller. |
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(Cont.) Back into this body / Joyce Lombard -- Return to campus / Christine Swanberg -- Crossing the high country / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- To my body / Judy Clouston -- Premenstrual syndrome / Sharon H. Nelson -- Spa / Anne Giles Rimbery -- The women's side / Kim Ly Bui-Burton -- Figure problems / Allison Joseph -- Belly / Katharyn Howd Machan -- Contemplating a breast enhancement operation / Rosaly DeMaios Roffman -- Stretch marks / Laura Apol Obbink -- Seeing the Earth from the moon / Maureen O'Brien -- Breastfeeding at night / Susan Eisenberg -- Forever / lu carter -- Tapping a stone / Jane Schapiro -- Before stillbirth / Barbara Bolz -- After hysterectomy / Barbara J. Mayer -- The woman whose body is not her own / Anita Skeen -- Gathering morning fire / Kaye Bache-Snyder -- Her hair / Maggi Ann Grace -- Joan has her ears pierced / Bernice Rendrick -- Hearing / Jeanne Lohmann. |
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(Cont.) To my eyes / Mary McGinnis -- Menopause poem / Sue Doro -- This / Ann Menebroker -- After reading Mark Strand's "Courtship" / Beverly Voldseth -- Better than sex / Keddy Ann Outlaw -- To women who sleep alone / Amy Uyematsu -- The pier / Michele Moore -- To be able / Billie Barbara Masten -- For S / Brenda Crank -- Examining the heat exchange over a mug of tea / Terry Blackhawk -- The naked truth / S. Minanel -- Plastic surgery / Mindy Kronenberg -- The nest / Sandra Redding -- This insance notion, she says / Grace Butcher -- Take my body / Elizabeth Weber -- Crone drives through spring / Claudia Van Gerven -- Combustion / Susan Carol Hauser -- Osteoporosis / Mary Zeppa -- Lucy / Kathleen Patrick -- Rehabilitation / Elaine Rothman -- After sixty / Marilyn Zuckerman -- Clay / Sarah Allen -- Spring surge / Kay Loftus -- In praise / Mary Sue Koeppel -- Volunteer mourner / Marie Kennedy Robins. |
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(Cont.) The present / Lori Russell -- The lovers at eighty / Marilyn Taylor -- Blackberry wine / Ruth Moose -- The year Alice moved to the attic / Kathryn Etters Lovatt -- A living will / Naomi Halperin Spigle -- If death were a woman / Ellen Kort. |
| Summary |
I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, the latest in the series of best-selling anthologies (When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple and If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies), delves into the sometimes hidden and always powerful feelings that women have about their bodies. In the emotionally evocative style that characterizes Martz's previous collections, this book explores coming of age, sexuality, childbirth, physical power, menopause, aging, and much more. This is more than just another book about body image. Using her talent for bringing together extraordinary stories, poems, and photographs about women's lives, editor Sandra Martz explores the broader question of how the physical aspects of being female affect women's experiences. Sure to be a best-seller, this anthology will have women reading and thinking and sharing for a long time. -- from back cover. |
| Subject |
Women -- Literary collections.
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Women. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Body image -- Literary collections.
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Body image. |
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Human body -- Literary collections.
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Human body. |
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Short stories -- Juvenile literature.
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Short stories. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Martz, Sandra, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: I am becoming the woman I've wanted. 1st ed. Watsonville, CA : Papier-Mache Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)624376183 |
| ISBN |
0918949491 (paperback) |
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0918949505 |
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9780918949509 |
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9780918949493 (paperback) |
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