Emily Wells
Matter Of Appearance Paperback Book
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Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, wholebody pain she assumed was normal for someone used to pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was all in her head. It was only in college that she learned the name for the illness she had been suffering from all her life Behcets Disease, a rare congenital disorder causing blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, arthritis, and swelling of the brain. In A Matter of Appearance, Wells, now a professor of creative writing at UC Irvine, traces her journey as she tries to understand and define this specific and personal pain, internally and externally. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, tracing a line from the hysteria patients documented at the Salptrire Hospital in nineteenthcentury Paris through to the contemporary New Age healers of Los Angeles and beyond. At the crux of this is the dilemma of how to express in words an experience that is both private and public, subjective, and quantifiable.
Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: Seven Stories Press Ltd; Classification: BM; Weight: 380 g; Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 15
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Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, wholebody pain she assumed was normal for someone used to pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was all in her head. It was only in college that she learned the name for the illness she had been suffering from all her life Behcets Disease, a rare congenital disorder causing blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, arthritis, and swelling of the brain. In A Matter of Appearance, Wells, now a professor of creative writing at UC Irvine, traces her journey as she tries to understand and define this specific and personal pain, internally and externally. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, tracing a line from the hysteria patients documented at the Salptrire Hospital in nineteenthcentury Paris through to the contemporary New Age healers of Los Angeles and beyond. At the crux of this is the dilemma of how to express in words an experience that is both private and public, subjective, and quantifiable.
Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: Seven Stories Press Ltd; Classification: BM; Weight: 380 g; Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 15
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
Click here to view our full Returns Policy.
Emily Wells
Matter Of Appearance Paperback Book
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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