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Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach on Eating

January publication to capitalise on New Year slimming market

Best known as Princess Diana's therapist and the author of FAT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE, Susie Orbach has an international reputation as a therapist and expert on eating problems. She was a key figure at last year's Downing Street symposium on body issues and writes and broadasts regularly in a wide range of media.

'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized statement to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms. This book isn't magic but it feels as if it is.

Susie Orbach

Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation

Naomi Wolf, bestselling author of The Beauty Myth

Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that Fat is a Feminist Issue be read by every woman

Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash

[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food junkie

'A classic that will help you face the demands of 21st century living' Stylist 
 
'Revolutionary' The Times 
 
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Susie Orbach's seminal work, now established as a worldwide classic, shows how fat is not about food, but rather about politics, defiance, protection, sex, strength, assertion, anger, love. 
 
This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the landscape of bodies and food has shifted in our online age, bringing this iconic book to a new generation of readers. 
 
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'Groundbreaking in 1978, Orbach's original exploration of the body fascism of diets and body obsession is even more relevant today' Guardian 
 
'A pioneering feminist text' Vice

Susie Orbach

Praise for Fat Is A Feminist Issue

Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation

Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that Fat is a Femi ...

[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food junkie

Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation

Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that Fat is a Femi ...

[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food junkie

Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation

Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the classic work on the subject ... it is more essential than ever that Fat is a Femi ...

[Orbach's] pungent psychoanalytic insights and plain good sense ensure that this is still the sharpest, and best bible for the food junkie

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