Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein

9 reviews

murderousscottishgremlin's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

The subject matter was really interesting and I think I’ll definitely reread this at some point. I particularly enjoyed the writing style— a good blend of academic and lyrical. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Moderate: Racism and Medical content

sarabethcoyle's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

kelleykamanda's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Incredibly informative. A mix of essays and academic text. I found it informative but poetic at the same time. There were moments where the language felt really fluffy but overall I felt really hooked by the authors words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Self harm, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Bullying

Moderate: Racism and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

idkimoutofideas's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

biscuithead's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Vomit, Mental illness, Medical content, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Self harm

rat_fairy's review against another edition

very much not in the headspace to read this rn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

carijacqueline's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

wanderlustsleeping's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I thought this was so well done! Eye opening on a topic and experience whose history is always relevant, and in which society’s girls seem to forever be in battle with. 

We’ve all heard of how damaging today’s social media landscape is for teens, and that is because the landscape has just progressed and widened. This battle has always been around, and so we must ask the never ending question of how women are supposed to avoid falling into such deadly battles with themselves and the world and that never stops being heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

camillatd's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

Dead Weight is an urgent, important, brutal, and hopeful book--possibly the best book I've read on eating disorders in the contemporary United States. In essays both rigorously well-researched and achingly personal, Clein weaves together the threads of disordered eating, the internet, girlboss feminism, racialized fatphobia, and big pharma. Clein manages to articulate these sharp, emotive insights about the landscape of disordered eating, making connections I couldn't quite articulate on my own. It's a heavy, hurting one, so check CWs and proceed with caution, but I recommend this book highly and deeply. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Death, and Vomit