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Dead Weight

By Emmeline Clein

Dead Weight Social Sciences

Dead Weight

By Emmeline Clein

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Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women - famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved - she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder. In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, unearthing the pernicious messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form. Aiming to galvanize readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, when self-shrinking is fetishized as a core tenet of the feminine experience, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
275
Release Date:
2024-02-29
Publication Date:
2024-02-29
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1035014343
ISBN13:
9781035014347
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
360 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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