02340cam a2200361 i 4500 1041334067 TxAuBib 20231130120000.0 230810s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324050872 PAP 17.95 132405087X PAP 17.95 (OCoLC)1402118901 TxAuBib rda Steines, Margo, author. Brutalities [BOOK] : a love story / Margo Steines. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023] ©2023. 274 pages : illustration ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. "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 perspective on how power and masculinity coalesce―and how far she could push her body toward the brink. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of gentleness and love." -Provided by publisher. 20231130. Steines, Margo. Pregnant women United States Biography. Violence Social aspects. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 United States. Women authors, American Biography. Authors Biography. Autobiographies.