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...