TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steines,Margo
TI  - Brutalities: a love story 
SN  - 9781324050872
AV  - HQ759 .S74 2023
U1  - 306.8743092 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton and Company
KW  - Steines, Margo.
KW  - Pregnant women
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Violence
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Women authors, American
KW  - Authors
KW  - Femmes enceintes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020-
KW  - Écrivaines américaines
KW  - Écrivains
KW  - fast
KW  - autobiographies (literary works)
KW  - aat
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Essais fictionnels
N1  - Everything is contagious -- Brutalities (I) -- What to expect when you're expecting to possibly die -- Sick gainz (I) -- Your body is a bull's eye -- A very brutal game -- The fast slowdown -- Working -- Deprecations -- Scales of hardness -- Waddle like a cage fighter -- In the clinch (I) -- Skin hunger -- Brutalities (II) -- Can I shelter you? -- In the clinch (II) -- A clean, well-lighted place -- Sick gainz (II) -- A body that's been troubled -- Epilogue
N2  - "A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire, and a body pushed to the brink. Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce-and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care"--
ER  -