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The Art of Not Eating

A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire

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The Art of Not Eating

By: Jessica Hamel-Akré
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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The day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George Cheyne—an 18th century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet'—it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of women's appetite and a personal unraveling.

As Hamel-Akré follows Cheyne through the pages of medical studies, novels and historical scandals, she meets ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters and early feminist philosophers. In doing so she uncovers a twisted three-hundred year history of harmful ideals and male domination that still influences today's diet culture.

Blending memoir with piercing historical insight, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at female want, beauty standards, the nature of rationality, and how it all got so tangled up with how we eat.

©2024 Jessica Hamel-Akré (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd
Biographies & Memoirs Gender Studies Women
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