{"product_id":"the-art-of-not-eating-by-jessica-hamel-akre-9781838957032","title":"The Art of Not Eating","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Fascinating'\u003c\/em\u003e – Katherine May\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'These books ... deepen our understanding of how our bodies are ourselves, and how we may live...'\u003c\/em\u003e – New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Beautifully written, lyrical and unflinching'\u003c\/em\u003e – Charlotte Fox Weber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Her passion for her topic spills into her writing; the conclusions she draws are troubling and thought-provoking'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George Cheyne – an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as 'Dr Diet' – it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of women's appetite, and a personal unravelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this bold and radical book, Hamel-Akré follows Cheyne through the pages of medical studies, novels, and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters, and early feminist philosophers, all of whom were once grappling with nascent ideas around food, longing, and the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, she uncovers the eighteenth-century origins of both today's diet culture and her own troubled relationship with wanting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending history and memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Not Eating\u003c\/em\u003e will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality, and oppression, and show how it all got tangled up with what we eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845948231916,"sku":"9781838957032","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c6bc566191b833afb4d177375757b77b_0221f896-d448-452d-b51b-6290f7209acf.jpg?v=1758964346","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-art-of-not-eating-by-jessica-hamel-akre-9781838957032","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}