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B0C6WXHV2N epub At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power. I bite my friends to heal them.Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCE From a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly brave men and womensaints, philosophers, artists who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge societys mores and entrenched power structures. Read more