Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age / Edition 1

by Susie Orbach

Overview

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 stru

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367324902
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' (1978), 'Hunger Strike' (1986), 'The Impossibility of Sex' (1999), and 'On Eating' (2002).

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction to the 1986 Edition — Introduction to the 1993 Edition — Part I — Anorexia: Metaphor for our Time — Situating Anorexia — Starving Amidst Plenty — The Breeding of Body Insecurity — Hunger Strike — Part II — Towards a Model of Self-help: Themes to be Considered and Tackled — Bridging the Chasm — Food: From Poison to Palatable — Focusing on the Body: The Corporeal Sense of Self — Behind the Defence — Medical Issues — Afterword