Feed Me!

In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we've come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.Joyce Maynard writes about learning to make pie with her complex but adored mother. Caroline Leavitt's chilling piece describes the overlap between power and eating. Ophira Edut explains how an outspoken body outlaw wound up on Jenny Craig. Diana Abu-Jaber writes about abandoning her Bedouin customs for America's silverware and table manners-and missing the physical, hands-on connection with food. Exploring the bonds between appetite and remorse, hunger and longing, satisfaction and desire, this anthology is for every woman who's ever felt guilty about eating dessert, or gushed over a friend's weight loss, or wished she had a different body. Feed Me! features the following essays:He Called Me Fat; It Set Me Free by Sari Botton The Grief Diety by Caroline Leavitt With Hands by Diana Abu-Jaber Seconds by Jenny Allen My Worst Excess by Amity Gaige Sisi, You're Getting Fat by Courtney E. Martin My Ten Plagues by Harriet Brown Top Model by Magali Amadei Reader, I Ate Him by Brenda Copeland The Twin Paradox by Susan O'Doherty Attack of the XL Girl by Laurie Notaro Sugar Plum Fairy by Dana Kinstler Sky Girl by Ann Hood Plus What? by Lisa Romeo Ess, Ess by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro In the House of Jean Nidetch by Whitney Otto You're Not Fat by Kate Harding My Binge Year by Jane E. Brody Day One by Wendy McClure Quacks by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Battle of the Bulge: Notes from a Decade of Body Activism by Ophira Edut Take this Cake and Shove it by Joan Fischer Pie by Joyce Maynard