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APPETITES ALSO BY CAROLINE KNAPP DRINKING.- A LOVE STORY PACK OF Two: THE INTRICATE BOND BETWEEN PEOPLE AND DOGS ALICE K's GUIDE TO LIFE: ONE WOMAN'S QUEST FOR SURVIVAL, SANITY, AND THE PERFECT NEW SHOES APPETITES WHY WOMEN WANT CAROLINE KNAPP COUNTERPOINT A MEMBER OF THE PERSEUS BOOKS CROUP NEW YORK Copyright © 2003 by Caroline Knapp Published by Counterpoint, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Counterpoint, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810. Set in 11 -point Goudy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knapp, Caroline, d. 2002 Appetites : why women want / Caroline Knapp. p. cm. ISBN 1-58243-225-2 (alk. paper) 1. Knapp, Caroline, d. 2002—Health. 2. Anorexia nervosa— Patients—United States—Biography. 3. Appetite. I. Title. RC552.A5 K636 2003 362.1'9685262'0092—dc21 2002152118 03 04 05/10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Herzog And for Roxanne, Zoe, and Hallie This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Prologue ix Introduction 1 Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem 22 The Mother Connection 54 I Hate My Stomach, I Hate My Thighs 83 From Bra Burning to Binge Shopping 119 Body As Voice 162 Swimming Toward Hope 179 Epilogue 193 Notes 200 Bibliography 211 This page intentionally left blank PROLOGUE APPETITE BY RENOIR T A HHE WOMEN LINGER at the water's edge, and they are stun- ning in the most unusual way: large women, voluptuous, abundant, delighted. They lounge along the river bank, they lift their arms to- ward the sun, their hair ripples down their backs, which are smooth and broad and strong. There is softness in the way they move, and also strength and sensuality, as though they revel in the feel of their own heft and substance. Step back from the canvas, and observe, think, feel. This is an im- age of bounty, a view of female physicality in which a woman's hungers are both celebrated and undifferentiated, as though all her ap- petites are of a piece, the physical and the emotional entwined and given equal weight. Food is love on this landscape, and love is sex, and sex is connection, and connection is food; appetites exist in a full circle, or in a sonata where eating and touching and making love and feeling close are all distinct chords that nonetheless meld with and complement one another. Renoir, who created this image, once said that were it not for the fe- male body, he never could have become a painter. This is clear: there is love for women in each detail of the canvas, and love for self, and there is joy, and there is a degree of sensual integration that makes you want to weep, so beautiful it seems, and so elusive.
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