Dead Weight
On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating
$33.13
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2024
Summary
Emmeline Clein’s own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women—famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she’s known and loved—she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, and binge eating disorder.
In writing that’s electric, fierce, and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eatin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035014347 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035014343 |
| Author: | Emmeline Clein |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 152mm x 27mm |
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Electric with insight. – Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering
About The Author
Emmeline Clein
Emmeline Clein is a writer and Columbia MFA graduate. Her criticism, essays and reporting have been published in outlets including The Yale Review, Buzzfeed, VICE, The Nation and Berlin Quarterly. Her work explores the intersection of disordered eating, diet culture and contemporary feminism, blending history, cultural criticism and memoir. With a lifetime of personal experience fighting an eating disorder and consuming the literary, filmic, televised and online content propagating our destructive cult of femininity defined by slenderness, she has also spent years studying disordered eating’s culture, epidemiology and diagnostic history academically, and writing about these issues in memoir, essays and investigative reporting.
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