Appetites by Caroline Knapp

Appetites by Caroline Knapp

In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud s famous question, What do women want? and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman s appetite for food, love, work, and pleasure has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying I want.

Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully and urgently challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.

Caroline Knapp was a regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix and a contributor to New Woman magazine, and her work has appeared in Mademoiselle, The New York Times, and several international publications. Alice K's Guide to Life and Pack of Two are two of her other books. Caroline Knapp, who was 42 at the time of her death, died in 2002.