The Original Anti-Diet Book Susie Orbach's hugely influential classic, Fat is a Feminist Issue, first published twenty-eight years ago, is as relevant as ever in our increasingly diet-obsessed society. Exploring our dominating love/hate relationship with food, Orbach identifies the key issue that fat is not about food, but rather about protection, sex, mothering, strength, assertion, anger, and love. It's a response to our social situation, to the way we are seen by others and, most importantly, by ourselves. Learning to eat out of stomach hunger rather than mouth hunger means food can be a pleasure, and compuslive eating a thing of the past. Finally, by understanding our investment in being fat and our subconscious fears of being thin, food can become a friend. With Fat is a Feminist Issue II, Susie Orbach delivers the long-awaited programme that will genuinely help conquer compulsive eating.A step-by-step guide, it shows how the binge-purge cycle can be broken and ultimately, how to stop dieting forever.
The Original Anti-Diet Book Susie Orbach's hugely influential classic, Fat is a Feminist Issue, first published twenty-eight years ago, is as relevant as ever in our increasingly diet-obsessed society. Exploring our dominating love/hate relationship with food, Orbach identifies the key issue that fat is not about food, but rather about protection, sex, mothering, strength, assertion, anger, and love. It's a response to our social situation, to the way we are seen by others and, most importantly, by ourselves. Learning to eat out of stomach hunger rather than mouth hunger means food can be a pleasure, and compuslive eating a thing of the past. Finally, by understanding our investment in being fat and our subconscious fears of being thin, food can become a friend. With Fat is a Feminist Issue II, Susie Orbach delivers the long-awaited programme that will genuinely help conquer compulsive eating.A step-by-step guide, it shows how the binge-purge cycle can be broken and ultimately, how to stop dieting forever.
Updated and with a new introduction. The complete volumes of the bestselling classic that revolutionised women's relationship with food.
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.
"Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery
owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation"
*Naomi Wolf, bestselling author of The Beauty Myth*
"Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the
links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the
classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that
Fat is a Feminist Issue be read by every woman"
*Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash*
"[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense
ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food
junkie"
*The Independent*
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