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Appetites: Why Women Want Paperback – 27 December 2011
by Caroline Knapp (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (139)
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.
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About the Author
Caroline Knapp is the author of Appetites- Why Women Want and the best-selling books, Drinking- A Love Story and Pack of Two- The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two.
Product details
Publisher : Catapult
Publication date : 27 December 2011
Edition : Revised ed.
Language : English
Print length : 230 pages
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meadowsweet
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant memoir
Reviewed in Canada on 29 June 2014
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This is a book to be relished, pondered and read again and again. It connects with ( I think) most women on so many levels. Caroline Knapp had the ability to express fairly profound ideas in a clear, deceptively simple way. She is not a show- off writer, striving to impress with literary gymnastics that obscure the message. Instead, she captivates the reader ( this one, anyway) with her honesty and humility. The awful thing is that she will never write again.
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Meg
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic, wide-ranging and thought-provoking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2014
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much more than a memoir of one woman's history of disordered eating. Interesting insights and ideas about how these individual illnesses are part of and sometimes reflections of wider culture.
Very highly recommended.
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Amazon Kundin
5.0 out of 5 stars wow - what a book!
Reviewed in Germany on 15 January 2017
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Ich habe dieses Buch schon vor zwei oder drei Jahren gekauft. Jetzt entdecke ich hier die Rezensionsspalte. Und sehe das Titelbild wieder. Kann mich sofort erinnern, dass das ein wahnsinnig gutes und spannendes Buch war. Dass ich es auf Empfehlung meiner Schwester gekauft habe, die das auch toll fand und dass ich es in zwei Tagen verschlungen haben. Soviel zum Appetite auf gute Bücher.
Dank an die Autorin!!!
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Virginia Rich
5.0 out of 5 stars an "aha" book
Reviewed in the United States on 31 July 2010
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This is a deeply engaging story, ranging from belly-laughing funny to piercingly painful to meticulously thoughtful. I thought this book was so interesting and useful that I bought it for all my friends for Christmas the year I read it, and am *still* buying it for people several years later. I am 34 years old so not quite a contemporary of Knapp's, but in the so-called post-feminist era there are so many things we do *not* talk about as young women, and reading this book was like looking into a mirror and seeing my own freckles and wrinkles for the first time - the shock or recognition and familiarity. I have been fortunate to never have grappled with significant eating disorders but simply as a woman of this Age I found this book incredibly compelling. And of course statistically, even if we don't have an eating disorder most of us have a close friend who does. Knapp helps shed light on their and all of our inner contortions.
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Kristen Ray
5.0 out of 5 stars All woman need to read
Reviewed in the United States on 18 September 2023
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I love tha writer for her book about alcohol addiction, this comes hand in hand. Additionally this is an addiction i feel all woman have issues with.
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Jenna Rose
4.0 out of 5 stars every word is carefully chosen.
Reviewed in the United States on 25 August 2013
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knapp had a knack for carefully choosing her words to perfectly match every situation that she described. her message always was important in each passage, but her prose was even more conscientiously executed. the introduction to this book, alone, was worth its purchase. I wish she were around to write more. What a writer!
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Tori
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written
Reviewed in the United States on 23 June 2021
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I bought this book before but it must have not survived my last move. I love the author, I have read most of her books. I consider myself to be a decent writer when I apply myself but Caroline had a gift with words. Too bad she passed away years back. I would have enjoyed meeting her. If you get a chance check out her other work.
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Elise P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening and Empowering Book that puts into words what so many people experience
Reviewed in the United States on 20 December 2013
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I absolutely recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Issues related to appetite, desire, need, expectations, eating disorders, etc are really tricky and complicated---there are so many forces that influence these, from the media to entire industries predicated on feeding on women's vulnerabilities. This book puts all of that together in a cohesive and comprehensive work, naming patterns and themes that many of us experience on a day to day basis but could not understand on a larger and much more inclusive framework for how we live our lives.
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Rene
3.0 out of 5 stars Knapp's writing is four stars, but the story lacks ...
Reviewed in the United States on 20 December 2017
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Knapp's writing is four stars, but the story lacks the fluidity of her well-constructed prose. It is, however, a timely look into misogynistic advertising and how the media impacts girls' and women's vision of themselves.
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4.0 out of 5 stars How eating relates to EVERYTHING
Reviewed in the United States on 4 December 2011
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Fascinating subject! Knapp took what seemed to be a simple topic of the desire to eat and relates it to our struggles with mothers, men, loneliness, and our universal need for pleasure. I've already lent my copy out ...
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Corinna
2.0 out of 5 stars Pity...
Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2014
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She seemed like a highly self-aware and good writer in Drinking: a love story, but in this book I find her low level of insight appaling. She seems to be swimming in a fish bowl, "year after year, running over the same old ground..."
Seeing roots of anxiety in the "feminine mystique" is a hundred years too late, not to mention inaccurate. I am also surprised that her writing and her identity as a writer did not seem to be fullfilling to her. Very strange.
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Jim Pullan
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 9 June 2015
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This was a gift and is being enjoyed. . . . Jim
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Imelda
5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Reading
Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2013
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Every reader, men and women alike will learn so much from this highly informative read by Caroline Knapp. She outlines society's effect on our thinking as men and women, and traces the course of her family relationships and how they related to her eating disorders
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Andi
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a wonderful, exciting mix of personal storytelling and behavioral health ...
Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2017
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This book is a wonderful, exciting mix of personal storytelling and behavioral health examination. It is gripping, poignant, and absolutely enjoyable. A great read for anyone struggling with eating disorders or those who'd like to learn more.
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Armchair Physicist
5.0 out of 5 stars Caroline Knapp is a Treasure
Reviewed in the United States on 6 August 2017
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What can I say? Caroline Knapp is a treasure. Be sure to pick up her collection of essays, The Merry Recluse, and Pack of Two.
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Steve Stadler
5.0 out of 5 stars A tragic story of a life lived and lost. ...
Reviewed in the United States on 7 August 2015
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A tragic story of a life lived and lost. Caroline tells of her life struggles with food, and alcohol. I hope others can learn and benefit from her struggles.
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Em
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Reviewed in the United States on 5 December 2015
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Amazing book on the connections to our struggles with food. Any women or man interested in learning about women's relationship with food should read this.
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Glenn
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
Reviewed in the United States on 10 January 2013
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A good book to read if you are interested in learning about women's issues and eating disorders. I received the book from the seller quickly and it was in good shape.
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Zach Wilbur
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing books
Reviewed in the United States on 24 March 2014
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I would recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding the difficult internal world that woman navigate. It's very insightful and yet an easy read.
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