Book description
THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - In one volume together with its
bestselling sequel
When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became
an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then.
Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie
Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls
are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age
where women want to be sexy, nurturing, domestic goddesses, confident
at work, and feminine too, the twenty-first-century woman is poorly
armed for survival. Never before has the Fat Is A Feminist
Issue revolution been more in need of revival.
Exploring our love/hate relationship with food, Susie Orbach
describes how fat is about so much more than food. It is a response to
our social situation; the way we are seen by others and ourselves. Too
often food is a source of anguish, as are our bodies. But Fat Is A
Feminist Issue discusses how we can turn food into a friend and
find ways to accept ourselves for who and how we are. Following the
step-by-step guide, and you too can put an end to food anxieties and dieting.
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The
Women's Therapy Centre in London and The Women's Therapy Centre in New
York. Her books include
Hunger Strike
,
What's Really Going on Here?
,
Towards Emotional Literacy
,
Susie Orbach On Eating
and
The Impossibility of Sex
. She lectures widely in the UK, Europe and North America, has written
for several magazines and newspapers, and has provided consultation
advice for organisations from the NHS to the World Bank. She continues
to help many individuals and couples from her practice in London. She is
also a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
