Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture

by Leslie Heywood

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Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic--the privileging of mind over body, of hard over soft, of masculine over feminine--is at the heart of the modernist style. Her argument ranges from Plato to women's bodybuilding,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520357078

ISBN13:9780520357075

Release Date:March 2022

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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