Appetites: Why Women Want

In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, What do women want? and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite--for food, love, work, and pleasure--has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers--and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying I want.

Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully--and urgently--challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.

Author: Caroline Knapp
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 12/27/2011
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781582438085
ISBN10: 1582438080
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
Caroline Knapp is the author of Appetites: Why Women Want and the best-selling books, Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two.