28.11.2025
The Rise (and Flaws) of Cannibal Feminism by Shaniya aka Shanspeare
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Discussion
Act One: I am obscene to you
"Corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is 'I want to eat."
- Erica Jong, Where it Begins
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feminine appetite is regulated in one of two ways: diet or death
"'How Beautiful Women Eat': Feminine Hunger in American Popular Culture."
by April Davidauskis
Feminist Formations, vol. 27, no. 1.
2015. pp. 167-89. JSTOR
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the insatiability of trying to heal
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"[The author's ambivalence] towards her own creation may stem from her realization that, since her culture associates the excessive female body with lower classes, especially [Black people], loosening the straight jacket of restrained appetites would not so much liberate the upper class white woman, as lower their class status and the privileges that come with it."
- Debra Beilke
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