A review by sams84
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach

2.0

I picked this up thinking that this would look at the relationships between food and dieting and the use of these to control women's bodies and lives, a concept that has been touched upon in some of the other literature I've read. But it wasn't really that. This does start out looking at this but then it shifts focus to the reasons behind compulsive eating and how to break these habits. The advice and exercises are interesting but I did feel that there was a lot of focus on being slim and some quite substantial assumptions that in controlling compulsive eating everyone can be slim. I kind of expected more of a focus on acceptance of body size and shape and listening to its needs rather than slim-ness being the end goal.