Emmeline Clein’s own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women ? famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she’s known and loved ? she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.
In writing that?s electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today’s feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture.