Oral History
Carolyn Steedman, 19 June 1986
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
by Kim Chernin.
Virago, 213 pp., £3.95, May 1986,0 86068 746 5 Show More
by Kim Chernin.
Virago, 213 pp., £3.95, May 1986,
“... a woman’s body: but which can also seen as the ultimate denial of that body unto death. In Kim Chernin’s large claim in The Hungry Self, modern woman’s obsession with eating and not-eating might even provide the royal road to the unconscious that dreams provided for Freud. Down there in Hades, did Persephone think obsessively about ... ”
