Michelle S. (ivereeee) reviewed Eating Our Hearts Out: Personal Accounts of Women's Relationship to Food on
This collection of 92 brief poetry and prose pieces. With few exceptions, these works--many written in the first person--depict a world in which a Ben and Jerry's shop can be a "den of . . . sin" or a "house of worship," but not just a plain old ice cream store.
Many of the works (no distinction is made between fiction and nonfiction) depict dieting, gorging, anorexia and/or bulimia as a way of life; ultimately eating is "all one extended, unsatisfying experience." "Empty" and "full" have little meaning; the standards are victory (e.g., getting a snack on the sly) and defeat (e.g., gorging on that snack).
. . "Women's magazines give us luscious cake recipes for our families and diet tips for ourselves."
Many of the works (no distinction is made between fiction and nonfiction) depict dieting, gorging, anorexia and/or bulimia as a way of life; ultimately eating is "all one extended, unsatisfying experience." "Empty" and "full" have little meaning; the standards are victory (e.g., getting a snack on the sly) and defeat (e.g., gorging on that snack).
. . "Women's magazines give us luscious cake recipes for our families and diet tips for ourselves."
