About the Author

Susie Orbach is the co-founder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York. A former Guardian (UK) columnist, she was visiting professor for ten years at the London School of Economics and is the convener of www.any-body.org. She is a consultant and co-originator of the Dove Campaing for Real Beauty. The author of a number of books, including On Eating, The Impossibility of Sex, and the bestseller Fat is a Feminist Issue, she lectures extensively worldwide.

Reviews

"Orbach provides a rich, nuanced context for the present moment, looking through time and across cultures." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A cogent, relevant look at the contemporary body in crisis." --Kirkus Reviews "A smart and rich compendium of what is going on within and without our bodies today, its pages informed by Orbach's decades of clinical practice and research." --The Times (UK) "A timely and powerful polemic . . . on the western obsession with achieving physical perfection." --The Guardian (UK) "A timely entry in the current analysis of reality versus fiction that seems to be steadily encompassing all facets of American life." --Booklist "Virtually all feminist debate on body image and beauty imagery owes its existence to Susie Orbach's enduring formulation." --Naomi Wolf "Susie Orbach's pioneering work isn't just the first to expose the links between sexual politics and female dieting; it remains the classic work on the subject." --Susan Faludi "Ms. Orbach extends feminist analysis systematically, convincingly, and movingly to portray the anorectic struggle as a metaphor for our age." --The New York Times Book Review on Hunger Strike