Appetites: Why Women Want
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000H2N9Y0 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungersand offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying I want.” Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifullyand urgentlychallenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.. 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 appetitefor food, love, work, and pleasurehas become a battlefield
Two Stars Nothing new. This is a book to buy for your sisters and daughters By any scale, I've been a fortunate and successful woman. I deeply enjoy my work, have the opportunity to think deeply, have good health, loving family and children.This book was originally a recommendation from a friend, one of those 'think you might like it' things, that sat on the table. Why would I be interested?Opening it, reading it and being stuck almost motionless by recognition of deep truths has changed that attitude. I'm or. Appeties:Why Women Want Catherine Williams The book Appetites: Why Women Want, written by the late author Caroline Knapp, is an antidote to our culture's obsession with beauty and women's body-image. It is hard to believe that such a book, published in 2003 has only recently been written. The book contains simple but necessary ideas concerning women and the obsessions we are prone to face: material possessions, relationships, and eating disorders. Though the book definitely ha
On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating—-complete with Knapp's unflinching account of her anorexia. In this expansive view, "one woman’s tub of cottage cheese is another woman’s maxed-out Master Card." Readers will nod in recognition as the author seamlessly weaves autobiography and anthropology, describing her family of origin, profiling women of appetite and countering what she calls "the culture of No!" that curbs and disguises women's desires. Knapp gets to yes by urging readers to ask: "What gives me delight and fully engages me?" Knowing that 42-year-old Knapp died of lung cancer makes this question all the more poignant. She illuminates the ways in which cultural taboos about women w