Updated and with a new introduction, the bestselling classic that revolutionised our relationship with food.
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London and The Women's Therapy Centre in New York. Her books include Hunger Strike, What's Really Going on Here?, Towards Emotional Literacy, Susie Orbach On Eating and The Impossibility of Sex. She lectures widely in the UK, Europe and North America, has written for several magazines and newspapers, and has provided consultation advice for organisations from the NHS to the World Bank. She continues to help many individuals and couples from her practice in London. She is also a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes
its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation
Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the
links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the
classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that
Fat is a Feminist Issue be read by every woman
[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense
ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food
junkie
*The Independent*
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