Fat Is A Feminist Issue
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407089928
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Fat Is A Feminist Issue

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Updated and with a new introduction, the bestselling classic that revolutionised our relationship with food.

'A classic that will help you face the demands of 21st century living' Stylist

'Revolutionary' The Times

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Susie Orbach's seminal work, now established as a worldwide classic, shows how fat is not about food, but rather about politics, defiance, protection, sex, strength, assertion, anger, love.

This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the landscape of bodies and food has shifted in our online age, bringing this iconic book to a new generation of readers.

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'Groundbreaking in 1978, Orbach's original exploration of the body fascism of diets and body obsession is even more relevant today' Guardian

'A pioneering feminist text' Vice
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407089928
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

Susie Orbach

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.

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Praise for Fat Is A Feminist Issue

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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