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A remarkable personal insight into female body image, spirituality and the defiance of cultural expectations.
Joanna Jepson was born with a facial deformity that led to her being mercilessly bullied through childhood and adolescence whilst a strict evangelical upbringing imposed further challenges. Reconstructive facial surgery and a religious meltdown left her unrecognizable and disorientated, and triggered a search for identity and belonging.
After ordination, a spell in the cloisters of a Welsh convent and a burst of headline-hitting fame in relation to the cleft palate abortions in the news a few years ago, Joanna became the first Chaplain to the London College of Fashion, with unique opportunities to explore the world of self-image.
Not just an autobiography, A Lot Like Eve exposes the cultural idols and preoccupations that hook so many women into trying to prove that they are worthwhile in the way that the world expects. Like the first (metaphorical) woman, Eve, we too are still trying to pretend that we are wonderfully adorned by our own kind of fig-leaves.
Table of Contents
Prologue
1 The Insiders
2 Baptism
3 Exile
4 Angels and Demons
5 Good News Crusaders
6 Tongues
7 Revival
8 Poisoned Pens
9 The First Leaf
10 Not God's: Mine
11 Kafir and Caliphates
12 Laying Out the Bodies
13 Alastair
14 About Face
15 Undoing
16 Hot Worship Leaders and Godly Wives
17 At Home in a Stable
18 Fish Out of Water
19 Napkins, Nails and Piercings
20 Saved through Childbirth
21 Turned Tables
22 Captain Sensible
23 Hippy Chick and Punk Boy
24 The Time of Your Life
25 Tractors and Silence
26 Stealth Nettle Farming
27 Ground E
28 Valentine Message
29 St Bob, Patron Saint of Curates
30 Thursday Morning Crem Rota
31 A Holy Place in the World
32 Nuns' Tea Party
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Product details
| Published | Feb 26 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781472913180 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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