· 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 ISBN · Oh, Caroline Knapp will be missed. "Appetites" is a powerful and profound exploration of her battle with anorexia in her twenties. She weaves the stories of other female bulemics and anorexics throughout her own-and also of other women with deep obsessions and cravings that lead to such behaviors as promiscuity, alcoholism, spending wildly, and shop www.doorway.ru by: Appetites: Why Women Want: Author: Caroline Knapp: Publisher: Counterpoint, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects/5(4).
Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp. Aug Aug / cdonivan. ONE "Every generation measures itself against the one before; every daughter's experience of hunger will be shaped to some extent by that of her mother: what she had or did not have, how much it cost her, how much she herself wants or can allow herself. Caroline Knapp Appetites Why Women Want. 13 July T he confessed struggles of Caroline Knapp are eerily familiar; not merely familiar to me but for gross percentages of half of our Western populations. Female desire, sexuality, the female body, personhood repressed or skewed or obscured in a society where seemingly nothing is held back. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
Oh, Caroline Knapp will be missed. "Appetites" is a powerful and profound exploration of her battle with anorexia in her twenties. She weaves the stories of other female bulemics and anorexics throughout her own-and also of other women with deep obsessions and cravings that lead to such behaviors as promiscuity, alcoholism, spending wildly, and shop lifting. Caroline Knapp, a former anorexic, delves into why women believe they need to deny themselves those things they desire, and why they shouldn't feel like they should. Women need to not only get in touch with their appetites, but what those appetites are, why they are there. The final and remarkable book of best-selling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating—-complete with Knapp's unflinching account of her anorexia. In fact, Knapp is writing about how every woman can decipher her hunger and loneliness by connecting with her desire to experience pleasure.
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