Description
Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.
Table of Contents
Preface: Hello and Goodbye - Nancy Mairs PART I: INTRODUCTION; OR TWO WAYS IN On Writing toward Trust - Susannah Mintz On Feminist Intellectual History - Merri Lisa Johnson PART II: NEW ESSAYS On Difficult Gifts: A Biographical Portrait of Nancy Mairs - Hayley Mitchell Haugen On Writing in a Collaborative Spirit: Nancy Mairs's Ethic of Community - Susan Cumings On Depression Narratives: 'Hence, into the dark, we write . . .' - Hilary Clark On the Rhetoric of Gloom and Joy: In Turbulent Love with the World in A Troubled Guest - Susannah Mintz On Nancy's Husband George Masculinity, Disability, and Sex after Cancer in Remembering the Bone House and Waist High in the World - Margaret Torrell On Marriage, Church, and Being a Feminist Catholic Sacraments of the Body in Ordinary Time - Jenny Christine Bangsund PART III: FOUNDATIONAL STATEMENTS Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Life-writing - G. Thomas Couser 'Making up the Stories as We Go Along': Men, Women, and Narratives of Disability - Madonne Miner Transforming the Tale: The Auto/Body/ographies of Nancy Mairs - Susannah Mintz Dismembering the Heterosexual Imaginary: The Infidelity Narrative in Nancy Mairs's Remembering the Bone House - Merri Lisa Johnson
