Bite Your Friends Lesbian and their resistance to an

and their resistance to an open acceptance of homosexuality

On the heels of her teacher’s transformation

let alone speak of

a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics

Bite Your Friends Lesbian and their resistance to anBy Fernanda Eberstadt At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power. I bite my friends to heal them.Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCE From a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly