Body talk :
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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Young Readers, 2020Description: 256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781616209674Subject(s): Human body -- Juvenile literature. -- Social aspects | Human body -- Juvenile literature. -- Political aspects | Body image -- Juvenile literature | Teenage Non-Fiction | Personal and Social Issues | Children's / Teenage: general interest | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Body & healthDDC classification: 306.4613 LOC classification: HM636 | .B654 2020Summary: "Thirty-seven contributors-including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors-explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"-- A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020 It's time to bare it all about bodies! We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story. In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics, and illustrations-about everything from size and shape to scoliosis, from eating disorders to cancer, from sexuality and gender identity to the use of makeup as armor. Together, they contribute a broad variety of perspectives on what it's like to live in their particular bodies-and how their bodies have helped to inform who they are and how they move through the world. Come on in, turn the pages, and join the celebration of our diverse, miraculous, beautiful bodies!
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| 610.9 .D711 2016 Medicine : | 612 .B916 2019 The body : | 612 C798w 2019 Wait, what? : a comic book guide to relationships, bodies, and growing up / | 612 J54b 2020 Body talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy / | 612.044 .M478 1981 Exercise physiology : | 612.825 .Z48 1993 A vision of the brain / | 613 W214w 2018 What does consent really mean? / |
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"Thirty-seven contributors-including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors-explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"-- A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020 It's time to bare it all about bodies! We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story. In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics, and illustrations-about everything from size and shape to scoliosis, from eating disorders to cancer, from sexuality and gender identity to the use of makeup as armor. Together, they contribute a broad variety of perspectives on what it's like to live in their particular bodies-and how their bodies have helped to inform who they are and how they move through the world. Come on in, turn the pages, and join the celebration of our diverse, miraculous, beautiful bodies!