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　　Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their

eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never

before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. Taking up issues

including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion,

fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays in

a young person's search for direction. Powerful and immensely

informative, this collection makes accessible the mindset of a

disease that has long been misunderstood.

With essays by Priscilla Becker, Francesca Lia Block, Maya

Browne, Jennifer Egan, Clara Elliot, Amanda Fortini, Louise Glück,

Latria Graham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Trisha Gura, Sarah Haight,

Lisa Halliday, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Maura Kelly, Ilana Kurshan,

Joyce Maynard, John Nolan, Rudy Ruiz, and Kate Taylor.

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　　Kate Taylor is a culture reporter at the New York Sun;

her writing has also appeared in Slate and the New

Yorker. She lives in New York.

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The full-fledged anorexic, on the other hand, has discovered a powerful trick, which is that becoming habituated to behaviors that keep you thin actually allows you to not think about your weight. An accomplished writer, who has been anorexic off and on since high school and who is very thin, told me, when I asked about her eating habits, that she doesn’t like to eat real meals and that she writes better without them. But she also said, with total sincerity, that she thinks about food and weight “much less than other women do.” From her tone, it was clear that she thought this preoccupation with weight was silly, and she was glad her mind was free for more important thoughts.

Historians have pointed out that these illnesses simultaneously mimicked and violated the era’s social conventions, in which men were supposed to be powerful and industrious, while women were expected to be delicate and refined. Men who were diagnosed with neurasthenia were described as having pushed them too hard professionally, until they collapsed and were reduced to total ineffectuality. Hysterics, with their emotional outbursts, flouted standards of ladylike decorum and restrain. Yet in being weak and physically helpless they were also a sort of caricature of the ideal women.

One interpretation of the two illnesses [neurasthenia and hysteria] is that they resulted from internal conflicts, in which individuals were torn between obeying and transgressing contemporary social standards. ...

In my view, the two aspects of the disease that Bruch commented on – the isolation and desire to set oneself apart on the one hand, and the instinct for conformity on the other – did not succeed each other, but exist in a constant tension.

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The kind of person who develops anorexia is driven equally by a desire to be accepted and a desire to feel special and distinct, a hunger for praise and a hunger for self-expression. Anorexia seems to offer a quick and dirty means for having it both ways: thinness buys you social acceptance, while the psychological experience of starvation isolates you and appears to draw you closer to your true self.

Some anorexics have very intellectualized ideas of what thinness means. Ilana Kurshan described being drawn to images of slenderness in her old art history textbooks; Degas’ little bronze ballerinas, Ionic columns. She imagines anorexia herself personified as “a snow white princess who glided along in a winter fairyland, leaving no footprints” – a beautiful waif, who takes up no space and leaves no mark.

One former anorexic I know described her physical ideal as a woman who was beautiful without makeup or fancy clothes – someone with an otherworldly beauty, austere, almost saintly, as one pictures Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch. Indeed, some anorexics have a compulsion to keep their appearance very plain. In her biography of the philosopher (and anorexic) Simone Weil, Francine du Plessix ...

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Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays in a young person's search for direction. Powerful and immensely informative, this collection makes accessible the mindset of a disease that has long been misunderstood.

With essays by Priscilla Becker, Francesca Lia Block, Maya Browne, Jennifer Egan, Clara Elliot, Amanda Fortini, Louise Glück, Latria Graham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Trisha Gura, Sarah Haight, Lisa Halliday, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Maura Kelly, Ilana Kurshan, Joyce Maynard, John Nolan, Rudy Ruiz, and Kate Taylor.

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