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" 'Sharply intelligent . a consoling and enraging book' - Sarah Moss, author of The Fell 'Enters the ED disourse like a red-bound blaze of light' - Vogue In Dead Weight , Emmeline Clein fuses her own experience of disordered eating with social commentary told through the stories of other women 8211 famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved 8211 and traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder. In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, revealing the dangerous messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form. Galvanizing readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight. "
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Biographisches: "Emmeline Clein's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine , The Yale Review , BuzzFeed News , VICE , The Nation , Catapult and Antigravity , amongst other publications. Her chapbook, Toxic , was published by Choo Choo Press in 2022. She received her MFA from Columbia's School of the Arts and lives in New York. Dead Weight is her first book." Rezension(2): " Publisher's Weekly : Starred review from January 8, 2024 Essayist Clein’s stellar debut collection probes the inciting factors and effects of eating disorders in young women. “Autobiography in It Girls” recounts how Clein imbibed damaging body standards from such tabloid stars as Kim Kardashian, whose Skims Solutionwear line “implies the customer’s natural form is a problem to be solved,” and Tyra Banks, whom Clein remembers watching on the reality show America’s Next Top Model (“As a viewer in the fourth grade, I saw a direct line between extreme slenderness and attention, admiration”). In “On Our Knees,” Clein meditates on how bulimia affects friendships between girls, discussing how Jane Fonda and her childhood friend used to binge and purge together, how the 2009 film Jennifer’s Body allegorized the disease as demonic possession, and how Clein herself found community in online eating disorder forums. Throughout, Clein envisions sisterhood as an antidote to sexist social expectations and imagines “a feminism of attention” in which women bear witness to each other’s stories. Clein skillfully weaves together pop culture anecdotes, personal reflections, and analysis of social media posts (“Starving in the Cyberverse” surveys the complicated motives behind pro–eating disorder content on TikTok and Instagram), in prose that’s vivid and sharp (“I learned to find something sacred in skeletons and something profane in the way my skin folded”). This announces Clein as a talent to watch. Agent: Monika Woods, Triangle House Literary. "
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Englisch
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