In "Appetites," Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, "What do women want?" and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of "Drinking: A Love Story" and "Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs," has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite--for food, love, work, and pleasure--has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers--and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want." Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, "Appetites" beautifully--and urgently--challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.
| ISBN | 1582438080 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9781582438085
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 227 | | Publisher | Counterpoint,U.S. | | Published in | Berkeley | | Imprint | Counterpoint,U.S. | | Height (mm) | 206 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Publication date | 26 Jan 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | Writer of foreword | Gail Caldwell | | Academic level | General | | Writer of introduction | Gail Caldwell | |
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