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A review by unalasa
Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders by Catrina Brown
2.0
DNF
It started out horribly but got a bit better along the way. Some ideas here feel either radical or just plain wrong, but mostly that is due to how old the book is. In the 80s and 90s, the eating disorder treatments were really an abomination. They’re not great now either, but they’re getting there.
So, yes, it's not surprising how anti-medicine/anti-psychiatry the book gets.
At first, I got over it and focused on how it explored feminist issues affecting eating disorder development. However, I got tired of giving it excuses.
I would love to see a modern revision of this, though (or a new collection of essays altogether).
It started out horribly but got a bit better along the way. Some ideas here feel either radical or just plain wrong, but mostly that is due to how old the book is. In the 80s and 90s, the eating disorder treatments were really an abomination. They’re not great now either, but they’re getting there.
So, yes, it's not surprising how anti-medicine/anti-psychiatry the book gets.
At first, I got over it and focused on how it explored feminist issues affecting eating disorder development. However, I got tired of giving it excuses.
I would love to see a modern revision of this, though (or a new collection of essays altogether).