by Susie Orbach · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781788162883
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«Bodies» is Susie Orbach's essay on body image, published by Profile Books Limited in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Starting from the relationship between body and identity, Susie Orbach examines how social and cultural demands condition the perception of body image and psychological well-being. She analyzes the weight of aesthetic ideals, advertising and discourses on the body, and offers a critical look at self-esteem and the pressures that shape bodily experience.
In addition to Bodies, Susie Orbach wrote Fat Is a Feminist Issue. The paperback edition of this title was published in 2019.
A read for those interested in feminism, psychology and the cultural analysis of body image.
Susie Orbach is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She was married to the author Jeanette Winterson. She is honoured in BBC'S 100 Women in 2013 and 2014 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Literature in 2019. She was the therapist to Diana, Princess of Wales during the 1990s.
