About Face
Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror
ISBN-10: 1580052460
ISBN-13: 9781580052467
256 pages
Paperback
$15.95 US
Published: June 2008
About the Book
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Those under-eye circles that have plagued you since the kids came along? A strand of wayward hair that needs to be tucked into place? Or do you find yourself lingering in the mirror, looking into your own eyes and witnessing the sameness, or the transformation, that the years have brought on?
In About Face, twenty-five women write about the simple yet radical act of looking—really looking—in the mirror. In essays that reveal truths about the self in the world and which examine the societal prism through which we view—and judge—each other, the contributors to this collection take the cultural conversation about beauty to a deeper level.
About Face takes readers on a journey of the interior, into the mirrors and minds of its writers. Some questions they address include: What's the relationship between your physical self and your "true" self? What do or don't you like about the way you look? Do you feel that your face has given or denied you access to one kind of life or another?
Looking in the mirror without turning away, without flinching or making excuses or posing, and then talking about it honestly, is a radical act. Women are, after all, aware of the face we show to the world, whether we consciously admit it or not.
Contributors include Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Baumgardner, Patricia Chao, Catherine Texier, Meredith Maran, Louise DeSalvo, Alice Elliott Dark, Marina Budhos, Kamy Wicoff, Sheila Kohler, and Kym Ragusa.
About Anne Burt
Anne Burt is editor of My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk About Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone In Between. Her essays have appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, in publications including Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, Working Mother, and Parenting, and in anthologies including Searching For May Poppins and Over the Hill and Between the Sheets. She has appeared on The Today Show and on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show; excerpts from My Father Married Your Mother appeared in the New York Times magazine, the Times’ Modern Love column, Parenting, and in London’s Sunday Telegraph. She is the Director of Communications for Columbia University School of the Arts.
About Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer, and editor. Her novels include The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. She is co-author, with Christina L. Baker, of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism and editor of Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother; Room to Grow: 22 Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children; and Always Too Soon: Becoming an Orphan at Any Age, also published by Seal Press. She is currently Writer in Residence at Fordham University. Her website is www.christinabakerkline.com.
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