Dead Weight
04 April 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Electric with insight' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering
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...
Details
04 April 2024
692 minutes
9781035014378
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
It’s a joy to read such sharply intelligent writing on a subject where critical thinking is rarely found; a consoling and enraging book in which thoughtful readers will find fellowship.Sarah Moss, author of The Fell
A compassionate dive into the disordered eating . . . enters the ED discourse like a red-bound blaze of light'Vogue
With fierce wit, excavating curiosity, and a heart fully surrendered to her subject, Clein writes about eating disorder culture from the inner reaches of what this culture has wrought. This book is electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness - a deep regard for what intimacy, hope and resistance might look like in a world where women are taught to devote their lives to destroying themselves.Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering
Dead Weight is a meticulously researched and carefully told exploration of eating disorders and how they pervade our culture. Emmeline Clein has handled this volatile, complex topic with a grace and kindness that is so often missing from discussions of eating disorders. It feels like talking about recovery with a very smart friend who knows what you've been through and wants the best for you.Marianne Eloise, author of Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking