Dorothy Parkers Elbow or Optimizing Womens Health through Nutrition

Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos

Author: Kim Addonizio

One the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely, Respectable? Not always. Evocative, transformative, still dangerous? Just ask many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Brought to you by two editors who are themselves widely praised (and proudly tattooed) authors, these stories, poems, and memoirs span the range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd. From Flannery O'Connor's likeness of God to Sylvia Plath's fifteen-dollar eagle, from Herman Melville's power of the primitive to Mark Doty's embrace of the ineradicable to Franz Kafka's lasting mark of the penal colony, this bold exploration of the illuminated body is guaranteed to get under your skin.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	From The Illustrated Man	1
	A Toda Maquina	7
	Grapefruit Flesh	24
	Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt	37
	My Tattoo	38
	To the Engraver of My Skin	41
	Dyeing a Three-Dollar Bill	42
	From "The White Knights"	48
	Skin	52
	"When I was a kid ..."	53
	For Lysa, Who Tattoos Me in Her Miami Living Room	54
	Lace	56
	Triangle Tattoo	58
	It's Bad Luck to Die	59
	From The Tattoo Hunter	78
	Incision	80
	"After the surgery ..."	81
	First Poem for You	82
	Snakes	83
	Parker's Back	84
	"In 1992, I had the tattoo on my arm redone ..."	109
	Zowie	111
	"I got my tattoo at a time of great upheaval ..."	126
	"I'd wanted to get one for years ..."	127
	Tattoo Pantoum	129
	It Only Hurts a Little	133
	Tattoos	141
	From Typee	153
	From 7 Tattoos	160
	Embellishments	168
	Tattoo Thoughts	171
	The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle	173
	Herstory	190
	"I bring my book - prepared to wait ..."	193
	From Tree	194
	Becoming Bird	196
	Designing a Bird from Memory in Jack's Skin Kitchen	198
	Second Skin	200
	Portrait	202
	"When I muse about tattoos ..."	205
	In the Penal Colony	206
	Convict Koo457	239
	Mando	241
	The News	248
	The Y	250
	From "The Life and Death of Philippe"	251
	True Tattoo	252
	"I do not have a tattoo ..."	253
	Wings, Fish, Star	254
	Benediction	256
	Contributors	258
	Permissions	263

New interesting book: Direction de Ressource Humaine

Optimizing Women's Health Through Nutrition: Sex-Based Nutrition

Author: Lilian U Thompson

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle. What is surprising is that faced with such a self-evident truth, there should be so little consideration to date of how these differences affect susceptibility to disease and metabolic response to dietary treatment. Understanding these differences and developing a gender-based approach focusing on the specific needs and conditions of women is crucial to achieve effective nutritional strategies for women's health.

Expanding the knowledge-base regarding sex, nutrition, and medicine, Optimizing Women's Health through Nutrition presents the biology, physiology, and metabology unique to women. The book demonstrates in a practical, accessible manner the scientific application of this data addressing lifecycle changes, disease prevention, and treatment. Based on sound research and supported by extensive references, it begins by describing recent research on biological and physiological differences and how these differences translate into varying disease trends between the sexes. Contributions describe the nutritional needs of women during the lifecycle, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy and lactation, premenopause, and menopause and midlife stages. The bulk of the book addresses each of the common major diseases or conditions that specifically affect the health of women. It emphasizes the role of nutrition in disease risk reduction as well as management and treatment of disease. Specific disease selection was dictated by those in which women are more vulnerable or have a higher incidence than men. The concluding section identifies areas forfuture research and strategic areas of investigation for researchers and health professionals, government regulators, and food industry professionals involved in creating novel foods that enhance women's health.