A review by liz55
FAT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE: How to Lose Weight Permanently - Without Dieting by Susie Orbach

3.0

Some thirty years old but still relevent today. I felt the cover was somewhat misleading because it's not really a weight loss book but a book about the relationship of women and food, the expectations of society, and a woman's role as mother. Says something about how little society has changed in certain areas as I related to it even though we have supposedly come a long way since the seventies. Some things she addresses have changed a bit, but the contradictary pressures on women to be nurturing mothers, sexual beings and viriginal all at the same time still apply. Maybe this should be re-read in the light of "the obesity epidemic". And yes I think some aspects of it can be applied to men.