The Art of Not Eating - A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire (Paperback)

The day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George C heyne - an eighteenthcentury polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' - it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of women's appetite and a personal unravelling.

In this bold and radical book, Hamel-Akré follows C heyne through the pages of medical studies, novels and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters and early feminist philosophers, all of whom were once
grappling with nascent ideas around food, longing and the body. In doing so, she uncovers the eighteenth-century origins of both today's diet culture and her own troubled relationship with wanting.

Blending history and memoir, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality and oppression, and show how it all got tangled up with what we eat.

General

Imprint:	Atlantic Books
Release date:	August 2024
Authors:	Jessica Hamel-Akre
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-83895-704-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-83895-704-9
Barcode:	9781838957049

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