Dead Weight

Dead Weight On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating

Hardback (04 Apr 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Sharply intelligent . . . a consoling and enraging book' - Sarah Moss, author of The Fell
'Enters the ED disourse like a red-bound blaze of light' - Vogue

In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein fuses her own experience of disordered eating with social commentary told through the stories of other women - famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved - and traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.

In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, revealing the dangerous messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form.

Galvanizing readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781035014330
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.1968526
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 400g
Height: 143mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 28mm