Bound (ePub)
A Daughter, a Domme, and an End-of-Life Story
(Sprache: Englisch)
Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this memoir will resonate with
anyone facing the complicated reality of aging and illness in the
United States.
Elizabeth and her mother, Judy, have always had a complicated relationship....
Elizabeth and her mother, Judy, have always had a complicated relationship....
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Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this memoir will resonate with
anyone facing the complicated reality of aging and illness in the
United States.
Elizabeth and her mother, Judy, have always had a complicated relationship. Now they face a confounding illness, as well as a labyrinthine healthcare system, at a complicated stage of life. Nothing is as it first seems in this riveting account of an unconventional mother-daughter journeya journey that from the start poses questions about love, life, family, aging, healthcare, sex, and death.
In Bound, Elizabeth Anne Wood addresses these questions as she chronicles the last eight months of her mother's lifea period she comes to see, over the course of months, as a maternity leave in reverse: she is carrying her mother as she dies. Throughout their journey, Wood uses her notebook as a shield to keep unruly emotions at bay, often taking comfort in her role as advocate and forgetting to be the daughter, as one doctor reminds her to do. Meanwhile, her mother's penchant for denial and childlike tendency toward magical thinking lead to moments of humor even as Wood battles the red tape of hospital bureaucracies, the frustration of planning in the midst of an unpredictable illness, and the unintentional inhumanity of a healthcare system that too often fails to see the person behind the medical chart.
Elizabeth and her mother, Judy, have always had a complicated relationship. Now they face a confounding illness, as well as a labyrinthine healthcare system, at a complicated stage of life. Nothing is as it first seems in this riveting account of an unconventional mother-daughter journeya journey that from the start poses questions about love, life, family, aging, healthcare, sex, and death.
In Bound, Elizabeth Anne Wood addresses these questions as she chronicles the last eight months of her mother's lifea period she comes to see, over the course of months, as a maternity leave in reverse: she is carrying her mother as she dies. Throughout their journey, Wood uses her notebook as a shield to keep unruly emotions at bay, often taking comfort in her role as advocate and forgetting to be the daughter, as one doctor reminds her to do. Meanwhile, her mother's penchant for denial and childlike tendency toward magical thinking lead to moments of humor even as Wood battles the red tape of hospital bureaucracies, the frustration of planning in the midst of an unpredictable illness, and the unintentional inhumanity of a healthcare system that too often fails to see the person behind the medical chart.
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth Anne Wood
Elizabeth Anne Wood is a SUNY Chancellors Award-winning professor of sociology at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. She is also Senior Strategist for Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the nation's only human rights organization working full time to protect sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. She earned her PhD at Brandeis University in 1999 and has written critically about sexuality and society ever since. Born on an Army base in Kentucky, Wood grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and now divides her time between Queens, New York and Jamaica Plain, Boston. She is a devoted fan of Amtrak and an avowed cat person.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth Anne Wood
- 2019, Englisch
- Verlag: She Writes Press
- ISBN-10: 1631526316
- ISBN-13: 9781631526312
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2019
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