Dead Weight
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In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, unearthing the pernicious messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form.
Aiming to galvanize readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, when self-shrinking is fetishized as a core tenet of the feminine experience, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.
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Huge trigger warning! Don't read this if you're struggling with any kind of eating disorder at the moment, it will be very hard to go through the book. It was very interesting to read about how huge the influence of capitalism on eating disorder is. Also how even physicians mistreat some people with ED if they're not underweight, and how hard it is to get it covered by health insurance. The world is so broken when it comes to our beauty standards. It makes me sad and angry. Read it so we can change it. Just, it's sometimes a bit dry.
Description
In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, unearthing the pernicious messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form.
Aiming to galvanize readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, when self-shrinking is fetishized as a core tenet of the feminine experience, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.
Book Information
Posts
Huge trigger warning! Don't read this if you're struggling with any kind of eating disorder at the moment, it will be very hard to go through the book. It was very interesting to read about how huge the influence of capitalism on eating disorder is. Also how even physicians mistreat some people with ED if they're not underweight, and how hard it is to get it covered by health insurance. The world is so broken when it comes to our beauty standards. It makes me sad and angry. Read it so we can change it. Just, it's sometimes a bit dry.