Maybe it's because I've recently been reading through the Fisher omnibus, By dinnertime, she was often hungry enough, she says, to "joyfully have wolfed down boiled sawdust." Caroline Knapp shyly offers that she spent her college years nibbling cottage cheese and rice cakes - when she wasn't drinking - and growing thinner and thinner as anorexia took hold. Fisher, the 20th century's philosopher of food, tells her guests about how, back in college in the late '20s, she supplemented the lacklustre cafeteria fare with off-campus waffles, hot chocolate and bowls of chili. A reviewer on Amazon (“LCC”) adeptly summed up the general thrust of the book: “ focuses on the psychology of women and how society impacts women’s desires and sense of entitlement.” Appetites looks at what it means to feed, truly, the body and soul… and why so many women instead believe they deserve to starve.At one of those dinner parties frequently convened by the dead, where they like to reminisce about corporeal life, M.
For those with young daughters I believe it is particularly compelling as you are forced to realize the various gender characteristics you may unintentionally promote, even while, at the same time, each day you hate having to live under them and suffer their ill effects (‘promotion’ by virtue of the example we set as we accept them in our own lives). This title would, I believe, serve as a wonderful pick for a women’s book club that enjoys a more cerebral selection. Appetites includes numerous interviews with women, excerpts from classic feminist texts, and sociological statistics blended together in such a way to present a work that could be categorized as a cultural study. Much food for thought, going quite a bit beyond just eating disorders to hunger and desire - of all types - and why women feel compelled to deny them.
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