Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture

by Leslie Heywood

Book Overview

Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic--the privileging of mind over body, of hard over soft, of masculine over feminine--is at the heart of the modernist style. Her argument ranges from Plato to women's bodybuilding,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305698
• ISBN13: 9780520305694
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"