The New Inquiry Syllabus

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“The anorectic can never be thin enough, her desire for thinness always  exceeds her own body, and yet the starvation of the anorectic manifests  physically a deep and systemic psychic distress experienced by women:  the distress of perpetual visibility.” —Anwyn Crawford on women, body image and capitalism in Overland

“The anorectic can never be thin enough, her desire for thinness always exceeds her own body, and yet the starvation of the anorectic manifests physically a deep and systemic psychic distress experienced by women: the distress of perpetual visibility.” —Anwyn Crawford on women, body image and capitalism in Overland

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