Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years. No other book has spelled out so clearly the parallels between sex and eating nor integrated the relationship of these to women’s basic need to be loved. Today’s dilemma for women—be fat or go hungry—and the endless variations and unsatisfying solutions to this problem have contributed to the incidence of anorexia, bulimia, and obesity.
Key Features
- In-depth Exploration: Discusses the parallels between women’s obsession with sex and romance in the fifties and their obsession with food today.
- Life-changing Insights: Provides a potential step-by-step program aid for women to examine, question, and change their behaviour.
- Wide Appeal: Relevant for women of all ages, especially young women and their mothers.
- Resource for Professionals: An excellent resource for counselors and therapists assisting women.
- Auxiliary Text: Suitable for courses in Women’s Studies focusing on psychology, history, and sociology of women and eating disorders.
Additional Information
The pursuit of slimness, the obsession with having the perfect body, excessive aerobicising, and diet books ad nauseam are all part of this phenomenon. This healing book will particularly attract single career women for whom sex and relationships are fraught with complications. Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality sheds light on the complex issues facing women and devotes special attention to the career woman and the additional pressures to be slim and stay slim. This book is for every woman who has ever worried about being too fat or too sexual. Young women and their mothers will be fascinated by the parallels between sexual obsessions of thirty years ago and the eating obsessions of today.
