1st Edition

Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality The Relationship Between Food and Sex

210 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years. No other book has spelled out so clearly the parallels between sex and eating nor integrated the relationship of these to women’s basic need to be loved. Today’s dilemma for women--be fat or go hungry--and the endless variations and unsatisfying solutions to... Read more
Contents Good Girls Don’t Eat Dessert
  • The Love Affair With Food
  • Eat and Be Thin
  • To Do IT or Not to Do IT
  • The Sexual Revolution
  • Sex: More Trouble Than It’s Worth
  • The Flight From Feeling and the Lack of Intimacy
  • When Eating Was Okay
  • Consuming Passions
  • Food, Sex, Love, and Power
  • Breaking Free
  • Towards a New Consciousness
  • Index

Biography

Cole, Ellen; Rothblum, Esther D; Weiss, Lillie; Meadow, Rosalyn