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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Lydbok): 9780062470256
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 13. juni 2017
4.3
Biografier
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Lydbok): 9780062470256
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 13. juni 2017
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Marie
3. mars 2023
This is a powerful and important book that offers a brave exploration of the relationship between body, identity, and trauma. I really liked how Gay's story is not just a personal one; it is also a reflection of larger cultural issues around body image and fatphobia. She writes eloquently about the ways in which society stigmatizes fat bodies, and how this stigma reinforces harmful beliefs about who is deserving of love, respect, and dignity. By sharing her own story, Gay sheds light on the deeply entrenched prejudices and biases that shape our attitudes towards weight and body size, and how fatphobia is deeply ingrained in our culture. She writes about the pervasive belief that fat bodies are inherently unhealthy, unattractive, and unworthy of respect, and how this belief leads to discrimination and marginalization. In addition to being an important commentary on cultural norms and societal expectations, "Hunger" is also a deeply moving and relatable memoir.
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13. juli 2023
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