Proud Flesh - A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure torrent

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure



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English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798889841265 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2.61 MB

A searing portrait of a mother’s body—a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness

Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor’s office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh: tissue that overheals to become its own wound. Pregnancy and motherhood had been physically vulnerable for Gray, but this renders her most intimate parts unrecognizable—like her body is no longer her own. Has it ever been her own?