![]() ![]() It is a protest against cultural stereotypes of women that in the end makes you seem the weakest, the most needy and neurotic of all women. ![]() ![]() A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength… It is a grotesque mockery of cultural standards of beauty that winds up mocking no one more than you. Hornbacher writes: ‘It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of deadly contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. Her introduction is insightful she states that she chose to write the book because, fundamentally, she disagreed with the majority of what had been written about eating disorders prior to 1998. Hornbacher begins with some startling admissions: ‘I became bulimic at the age of nine, anorexic at the age of fifteen’. I was quite interested to see firsthand what coping with an eating disorder is like, particularly over such a prolonged period, having never read a book which deals with the issue. Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted, a memoir of the author’s struggles with bulimia and anorexia, was March’s choice for the Mad Woman’s Book Club which I run on Goodreads. ![]()
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