Appetites

Why Women Want

Author: Caroline Knapp
ISBN: 9781582432250

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, 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, 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."

Publisher: Counterpoint
Publish Date: 2003

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Psychology / Psychopathology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Body image)