Appetites Why Women Want

by Knapp, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781582432267
• ISBN10: 1582432260
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-24
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In "Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question 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 women and their desires? Knapp, best-selling 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, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture. She uses her early battle 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.

Author Biography

Caroline Knapp is the author of Appetites: Why Women Want and the best-selling books, Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two.

Table of Contents

Prologue	ix
Introduction	1	(21)
Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem	22	(32)
The Mother Connection	54	(29)
I Hate My Stomach, I Hate My Thighs	83	(36)
From Bra Burning to Binge Shopping	119	(43)
Body As Voice	162	(17)
Swimming Toward Hope	179	(14)
Epilogue	193	(7)
Notes	200	(11)
Bibliography	211