Anne Elizabeth Moore - Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

PRAISE FOR BODY HORROR

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Probing her own experiences with disease and health care, Anne Elizabeth Moore offers scalpel-sharp insight into the ways womens bodies are subject to unspeakable horrors under capitalism.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Sharp, shocking, and darkly funny, the essays in [Body Horror]... expose the twisted logic at the core of Western capitalism and our stunted understanding of both its violence and the illnesses it breeds.... Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review

Scary as fuck, and liberating.

VIVA LA FEMINISTA

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the feminist killjoy I want at every partyarmed and ready to calmly, often humorously, eviscerate any casual misogyny in the room. Compiling her years of experience as a journalist, this collection showcases Moores staggering body of knowledge. At the core of several of these essays is Moores own body and its betrayals in the form of autoimmune disorders and her newly accepted label of disability. Admirably, Moore never lingers too long on her own experience, but instead uses it to reach to different corners of the globe and different eras in American history to diagnose the malignancy of misogyny on bodies beyond her own. Perhaps because of Moores multiple analyses of various horror films, Body Horror seems to remind readers of the iconic line, The call is coming from inside the house. Anne Elizabeth Moore is masterful at illustrating how the ills of capitalism have become so insidious that they are now coming from insideour houses, our heads, our very cells.

SARAH HOLLENBECK, Women & Children First Bookstore

As the subtitle promises, this essay collection by award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar Anne Elizabeth Moore tackles heavy, complicated issues with biting humor and aplomb, dissecting the ways patriarchal capitalistic trauma plays out on womens bodies and health, both mental and physical. From her keen observations on the 2014/2015 Cambodian garment workers mass strike and its resulting massacre to her vulnerable, often hilarious insights on the maze of current American healthcare and her own varied ailments, Moore writes with spark and verve.

LYDIA MELBY, Texas Book Festival

At turns chummy, cerebral, and incendiary, Body Horror holds no punches. This motley crew of essays form an astute and uproarious exploration of the insidious misogyny and ableism bred into contemporary culture. Youll laugh, youll cry, and you might even rage-vomit. A winner.

KATHARINE SOLHEIM, Unabridged Bookstore

PRAISE FOR THREADBARE

Threadbare takes us down the rabbit hole of the global fashion and textile industry, connecting the dots between the lives of the women who work at Forever 21 and the women who sew the clothes that hang on the racks there. With vivid storytelling and deep investigation, Anne Elizabeth Moore and her team of talented cartoonists prove the strength of comics as tool for translating impossible complexity to our everyday experience.

JESSICA ABEL, author of Out on the Wire and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures

A fascinating look into the lives behind our clothes. From the people who make them, to the people who model them, to the people who sell them, our clothes are part of an intricate network which spans the globe. The art in Threadbare helps draw a personal connection to what might otherwise be overwhelming statistics, and gives an intimate look into the way the world is affected by what we buy.

SARAH GLIDDEN, author of Rolling Blackouts and How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

A compelling and comprehensive portrait of the human cost behind what we wear. The sharp, gorgeous, and distressing Threadbare will leave you questioning both your wardrobe and the state of the world as a whole.

TIM HANLEY, author of Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planets Ace Reporter and Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the Worlds Most Famous Heroine

Well-researched, engaging, and full of surprising (and sometimes horrifying) statistics, you may finish reading this book and decide to become an activistno longer shopping for clothes at your local mall and pressuring your elected officials for legislation that holds clothing manufacturers and retailers responsible.

LISA WILDE, author of Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School

Threadbare is a brilliant amalgam of art, storytelling, consciousness-building, and old-fashioned muckraking. It takes on the enormous project of confronting the international apparel trade, through delving into individual stories and lifting up voices that are usually suppressed or ignored in mass media. The Ladydrawers collective and Anne Elizabeth Moore bring us face to face, literally, with the people most affected by labor exploitation and abuseand in seeing their faces, we understand the realities beyond the facts. An intrepid journey!

MAYA SCHENWAR, editor-in-chief of Truthout, author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesnt Work and How We Can Do Better

PRAISE FOR ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE

A post-Empirical, proto-fourth-wave-feminist memoir-cum-academic abstract [that] makes our countrys Mommy Wars look like childs playand proves... why we should be paying attention to Cambodias record of human rights and gender equity.

BUST MAGAZINE (on New Girl Law)

Attains the modest yet important success of making personal narratives and experience matter to critiques of history and globalization.

HYPHEN MAGAZINE (on Cambodian Grrrl)

A passionate, engaging, heartbreaking, funny, and inspiring book. I want to slip it into every tourist guide to Asia and give a copy to every girl in the world.

JEAN KILBOURNE, author, filmmaker, and cultural critic (on Cambodian Grrrl)

Anne Elizabeth Moore lets readers peer over her shoulder as she attempts the implausible. It turns out, the implausible is hard, and funny, and tragic, and illuminating, but once you sign up for the journey she never lets you look away. After reading what this woman accomplished in a few months, you might ask yourself some hard questions about how you spent last summer...

GLYNN WASHINGTON, NPRs Snap Judgment (on Cambodian Grrrl)

Cambodian Grrrl offers a compelling and spirited model of what is possible when media-making becomes a community endeavor. Dont understand why media is a human rights issue? You will by the end of Anne Elizabeth Moores latest effort.

JENNIFER POZNER, Executive Director, Women In Media & News

1000000000000000% punk rock.

JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY (on Cambodian Grrrl)

Conversational, intellectually curious, and charmingly ragged, Unmarketable is an anti-corporate manifesto with a difference: It exudes raw coolness.

MOTHER JONES (on Unmarketable)

[Offers] something distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism: a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist culture.

LA TIMES (on Unmarketable)

This is a work of honesty and, yes, integrity.

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