Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (ed. Univ of California Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9780520930711