Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Age
- ISBN-10
- 1855753774
- ISBN-13
- 9781855753778
- Series
- Hunger Strike
- Category
- Anorexia nervosa
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Susie Orbach
Description
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It is also about control; by conquering feelings of hunger, the anorectic woman aspires to conquer her emotional feelings as well. For Orbach, the struggle goes further. In this brilliant examination of women and eating disorders, she asserts that the complex relationship between women and food signifies women's battle for autonomy. Women's bodies are both private and public property. Society demands and expects women to look a certain way, to not take up too much space, to be self-effacing and mindful of others. Yet anorexia, whilst an extreme method of conforming to such demands, is conversely a rebellion against such ideas. It is the ultimate control over self, a cry of protest, a hunger strike against the contradictory and overwhelming demands placed on women in contemporary society.
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- 2018-04-24
- 224 pages
- Ebook
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- 2013-11-11
- 496 pages
- Ebook
- Irish Academic Press
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- 1986
- 201 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton
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