Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction by Carole Spitzack

Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction

Carole Spitzack

200 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative medium-paced
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Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is charact...

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