Tell Me How You Eat Food, Power, and the Will to Live
Tell Me How You Eat Food, Power, and the Will to Live | 1.75 MB
Title: Tell Me How You Eat
Author: Amber Husain
Category: Biography & Memoir, Political, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Science
Language: English | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1529154332
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An intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.
Inspired by writer Amber Husain’s unorthodox route to healing from anorexia, Tell Me How You Eat examines not just how society views the refusal to eat, but how we understand the meaning and power of food. Suspecting that the standard courses of treatment-as disempowering as they are ineffective-might in fact be part of the underlying problem, Husain took part in an experimental psylocibin treatment study. Where the medical model typically tries to fix the difficult non-eater, this trial opened her mind to the idea that there might be more to fix beyond the self-that our relationship with food might be closely entwined with our outlook on the world.
Through five chapters taking in hunger, restriction, gorging, feeding,…
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