“A woman’s relationship with hunger and satisfaction acts like a mirror, reflecting her sense of self and place in the wider world. How hungry, in all senses of the word, does a woman allow herself to be? How filled? How free does she really feel, or how held back? … It’s about the collision between self and culture, female desire unleashed in a world that’s still deeply ambivalent about female power and that manages to whet appetite and shame in equal measure.”
— Carolyn Knapp, quoted in Chessler’s Women and Madness.
January 22, 2010, 11:42pm Comments
