The women's liberation movement had achieved tremendous gains, freeing many women to lead lives unimaginable in earlier decades, yet it had also nearly vanished from the social and political landscape. She locates her own experience in the historical context of the 1980s, which was when, in her twenties, she began deliberately and methodically starving herself - until she eventually weighed 83 pounds. Knapp asks why women are so conflicted, not only about food but about success, sex, love and pleasure. This new book covers some of the same terrain - her family, repression, desire - but focuses on her struggles with anorexia and their larger cultural significance. Knapp died in June 2002, shortly after completing Appetites. In her 1996 memoir Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp chronicled a passionate attachment to drink and that love affair's devastating end. By Reviewed Liza Featherstone May 4, 2003
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