{"product_id":"woman-house-essays-and-assemblages-paperback","title":"Woman House: Essays and Assemblages - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren W. Westerfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling and inventive memoir exploring how pain and pleasure are passed down through generations of women\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years, Lauren W. Westerfield looked back at her childhood as an imaginative playscape lovingly crafted by her artist mother. But in truth, theirs was always a fraught relationship, close yet turbulent. It wouldn't be until her mid-twenties that Westerfield would learn that her mother was assaulted while living as a single woman in 1970s Los Angeles, or until her mid-thirties when caretaking for her now chronically ill mother during pandemic lockdown would reveal how that earlier incident and its ripple effects had shaped both their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays and assemblages in this book plumb the depths of two women's experiences, exploring the pain and pleasure they find in their bodies, in culture, and in their own art. Violence, beauty, and love reverberate and dissipate and shape the forms and psyches of these two profoundly connected family members. At once raw and refined, narrative and lyrical, nostalgic and blunt, the stories and images presented here explore Westerfield's life-from childhood to adulthood-passing through innocence, self-discovery and familial tethers. In unpacking her mother's history and the complexities of their relationship, Westerfield finds herself confronted with her own story: one grounded in a yearning for agency and individuation, of a body and mind groomed to be at odds with one another, of a feminist politics examining deeply rooted patriarchal understandings of beauty, control, and power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part memoir, part critical sense-making, part reckoning with family, identity, illness, addiction, art, and inheritance, \u003ci\u003eWoman House\u003c\/i\u003e draws on diverse inspirations in an attempt to recontextualize the female body-in danger, in pleasure, in portraiture, in proximity, in resistance-and challenge the structures that silence and restrict female expression. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAUREN W. WESTERFIELD\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eDepth Control\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and poetry have been published in \u003ci\u003eFENCE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeneca Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWillow Springs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Lette\u003c\/i\u003er, and elsewhere. Westerfield is a 2022 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. She teaches at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eBlood Orange Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987476545837,"sku":"9781625349231","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/gZCiUCSmF_9781625349231.webp?v=1776178935","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/woman-house-essays-and-assemblages-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}