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Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Patricia Foster

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Blindness Through The Looking Glass

Georgina Kleege

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The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth

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On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf

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The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

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Women Who Run With the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Famesick

Lena Dunham

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The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

Noga Arikha

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The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Siri Hustvedt

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

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The Vegetarian

Han Kang

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Sula

Toni Morrison

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Asymmetries: A Memoir of Difference

Caren Rabbino

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Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson

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Slow Man

J.M. Coetzee

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Elaine Scarry

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What is an Emotion? A Sublime Book

William James

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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Martha Nussbaum

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Our whole cubic capacity is sensibly alive; and each morsel of it contributes its pulsations of feeling, dim or sharp, pleasant, painful, or dubious, to that sense of personality that every one of us unfailingly carries with him.

William James

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