Emmeline Clein

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 anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, and binge eating disorder. In writing that's electric, fierce, and...