Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age - Hardcover

Orbach, Susie

9780367324902: Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age

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ISBN 10: 0367324903 ISBN 13: 9780367324902

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

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In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It is also about control; by conquering feelings of hunger, the anorectic woman aspires to conquer her emotional feelings as well. For Orbach, the stru

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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' (1978), 'Hunger Strike' (1986), 'The Impossibility of Sex' (1999), and 'On Eating' (2002).

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