Emma Woolf
Auteur de An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
A propos de l'auteur
Born and brought up in London, Emma Woolf studied English at Oxford University. She worked in publishing for ten years before becoming a freelance journalist and writer, contributing to The Independent, The Times, The Mail on Sunday, Harper's Bazaar, Grazia, Red, and Psychologies. Emma's weekly "An afficher plus Apple a Day" column in The Times is one of the newspaper's most popular features, with thousands of followers online. Follow her @ejwoolf. afficher moins
Œuvres de Emma Woolf
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- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 89
- Popularité
- #207,492
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 27
- Langues
- 1
This book really is not about being thin, it is a huge litany of every possible thing in society that pertains to women ( whether things being done to women or things women are doing to themselves by choice or by societal pressure ). She discusses weight loss and gain, but goes into pay inequality, make up, cosmetic surgery, mental illness, sex, men's perceptions of woman's body, self loathing, etc.
She is pretty blunt about being thin is not the ideal, despite being an anorexic and still quite slim, though she considers herself recovered, yet mildly bashes the overweight by saying there are no fat skeletons and it is all down to eating less and moving more.
Being an obese woman myself and having the opposite ED that she suffers from, and for nearly 3x the length of time ( this is my 35th year ), reading a book about weight loss and 'moving more ' ( I do walk up to 15 miles at a time, thank you very much ) by someone who has never for a single day in her entire life been overweight, obese or suffered from binge eating disorder,is annoying in the least and offensive to the max.… (plus d'informations)