Appetites: Why Women Want

by Knapp, Caroline
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ISBN: 9781582438085
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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 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 offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want."
Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully--and urgently--challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Knapp, Caroline
  • ISBN: 9781582438085
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2011

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