The Art of Not Eating (eBook)

A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Autor)

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2024 | Main
320 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-83895-705-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian

'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald

'Fascinating' Katherine May

'These books ... deepen our understanding of how our bodies are ourselves, and how we may live...' New Statesman


'Beautifully written, lyrical and unflinching' Charlotte Fox Weber


'Her passion for her topic spills into her writing; the conclusions she draws are troubling and thought-provoking' The Telegraph


The day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-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 unravelling.


In this bold and radical book, Hamel-Akré follows Cheyne through the pages of medical studies, novels and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters and early feminist philosophers, all of whom were once grappling with nascent ideas around food, longing and the body. In doing so, she uncovers the eighteenth-century origins of both today's diet culture and her own troubled relationship with wanting.


Blending history and memoir, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality and oppression, and show how it all got tangled up with what we eat.

Autor

Jessica Hamel-Akré is an award-winning historian, researcher and cultural strategy consultant. She holds a PhD from the University of Montreal and was a postdoctoral scholar in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Newnham College where she conducted a seven year study on the history of appetite control. An expert in the history of women's health, literature and feminist thought, she has helped some of the world's biggest brands navigate emerging ideas around gender, digital wellbeing and beauty. Jessica co-created and presented on the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Unexpected History of Clean Eating.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2024
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white integrated illustrations
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Alexander Pope • amia srinivasan • Angela Saini • Anorexia • Appetite • beauty myth • best new history books • best new history books 2024 • best new memoirs • binge eating disorder memoirs • books about diet • books about diet culture • books about eating • books about eating disorders • bullmia • Charlotte Gordon • chris van tulleken • Clarissa • Clean Eating • cultural history books • Desire • diet • eating • eating disorder memoirs • Eating Disorders • eating disorders in history • eating disorders throughout history • femininity • Feminism • Gender • george cheyne • history of diet culture • history of eating disorders • how to write about eating disorders • Maggie Nelson • Mary Shelley • Mary Wollstonecraft • new nonfiction books 2024 • Olivia Laing • processed foods • Samuel Johnson • Samuel Richardson • Sexuality • ultra processed food • ultra processed people • why is ozempic dangerous • why is ozempic so popular • Wolf
• ISBN-10: 1-83895-705-7 / 1838957057
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83895-705-6 / 9781838957056