by Emily Jenkins · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860497551
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«Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture» is Emily Jenkins's essay on the body and physical culture, in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
Emily Jenkins combines personal experience and interviews to explore the relationship with the body: from the everyday (getting dressed, going to the dentist) to the extreme (tattoos, shaving one's head). The book questions social norms about appearance and reflects on what our bodily conduct reveals about us.
Edition by Virago Press Ltd published in 2000; the work originally appeared in 1998. It belongs to the Virago V S series.
For readers of essays and cultural studies interested in body image, identity, and personal growth.
Emily Jenkins, who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young adult novels, and adult fiction. She is best known for the novels The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars; the later was adapted into a television series in 2025.
