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Her books have won numerous awards, including recognition as an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Her other titles include My Body, My Self for Girls, [3] My Body, My Self for Boys, [4] Ready, Set, Grow!, [5] On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!, Womancare, Child's Play, and The Alphabet Connection.
Milton Atsushi Murayama (Japanese: 村山 篤, [1] April 10, 1923 – July 27, 2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he wrote the 1975 novel All I Asking for Is My Body, which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II.
The book has been translated and adapted by women's groups around the world and is available in 33 languages. [3] Sales for all the books exceed four million copies. [4] The New York Times has called the seminal book "America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health" and a "feminist classic". [5]
In Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay describes her experience of her body, her relationship to food and weight, and her experience as a victim of sexual violence.Gay gained weight in the wake of her trauma, as both a means of comfort and of protecting herself from the world, and describes the book as being about "living in the world when you are three or four hundred pounds overweight, when ...
The book takes a scientific approach. [1] It cites articles from the following peer-reviewed academic journals: the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, The Lancet, Sleep, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, and the Journal of Applied Physiology.
The book won Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year in December 2023. [3] In a review published in The Guardian , scientist Kate Womersley called the book "long overdue". [ 1 ] Writing for The New York Times , Sarah Lyall concluded the book was "engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail". [ 4 ]
The book was edited by May Ayim (the pen name of May Opitz), Dagmar Schultz, and Katharina Oguntoye, each of whom interacted with Germany in a unique way and contributed their perspectives to the story. The book was translated to English in 1992 by the University of Massachusetts Press. A foreword to the English translation was written by Audre ...
The Autobiography of My Body is a novel by the American writer David Guy set in 1980s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] It tells the story of the sexual liberation of Charles Bradford, who after a bad marriage has returned to his hometown to be near his ailing father.