Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable and Cambodian Grrrl, co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, a founding editor of Best American Comics, a Fulbright scholar, former UN Press Fellow, and USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow. She lives in Chicago.
Sharp, shocking, and darkly funny, the essays in [Body Horror] ...
expose the twisted logic at the core of Western capitalism and our
stunted understanding of both its violence and the illnesses it
breeds [...] Brainy and historically informed, this collection is
less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of
irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly
devouring us.
--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Probing her own experiences
with disease and health care, Anne Elizabeth Moore offers
scalpel-sharp insight into the ways women's bodies are subject to
unspeakable horrors under capitalism."
--Chicago Tribune As the subtitle promises, this essay collection
by award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar Anne Elizabeth
Moore tackles heavy, complicated issues with biting humor and
aplomb, dissecting the ways patriarchal capitalistic trauma plays
out on women's bodies and health, both mental and physical. From
her keen observations on the 2010 Cambodian garment worker strike
and its resulting massacre to her vulnerable, often hilarious
insights on the maze of current American healthcare and her own
varied ailments, Moore writes with spark and verve.
-- Lydia Melby, Texas Book Festival Praise for Anne Elizabeth
Moore:
"Anne Elizabeth Moore lets readers peer over her shoulder as she
attempts the implausible. It turns out, the implausible is hard,
and funny, and tragic, and illuminating, but once you sign up for
the journey she never lets you look away. After reading what this
woman accomplished in a few months, you might ask yourself some
hard questions about how you spent last summer..."
--Glynn Washington, NPR's Snap Judgment [New Girl Law is a]
post-Empirical, proto-fourth-wave-feminist memoir-cum-academic
abstract [that] makes our country's Mommy Wars look like child's
play--and proves ... why we should be paying attention to
Cambodia's record of human rights and gender equity."
--Bust Magazine
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