"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."
By:
Caroline Knapp, Gail Caldwell Introduction by:
Gail Caldwell Imprint: Counterpoint Country of Publication: United States Edition: Revised Edition Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 256g ISBN:9781582438085 ISBN 10: 1582438080 Pages: 230 Publication Date:27 December 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Caroline Knapp is the author of Appetites- Why Women Want and the best-selling books, Drinking- A Love Story and Pack of Two- The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two.