In The Art of Starvation Sheila MacLeod tells her own story, the story of one girl growing up - with anorexia nervosa. Hers is the experience of thousands, for anorexia is now so prevalent that one in every two hundred teenage girls is starving herself - possibly to death. But its causes and cures remain controversial and mysterious.
The fact is that life for young girls has changed dramatically in the post-Pill age: the choices seem greater, the pressures more contradictory. Sheila MacLeod explores this uncharted territory with skill and subtlety. For her, starvation became the goal of her adolescence and she developed it into an art - her body the weapon she used to fight off helplessness in the face of the impossible demands of 'womanhood'. Basing her book on her diaries, she gives an impassioned account of anorexia as an illness and a state of mind.
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