Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Food Porn and Chick Lit

Why do the heroines of chick lit have such a battle with food?

Read the interesting article by Susan Wise Bauer. She analyzes the weight issues in the following books:

Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me (St. Martin's Press, 2004).

Jane Green, Jemima J. (Broadway Books, 2000).

Kelly James-Enger, Did You Get the Vibe? (Kensington, 2003).

Marian Keyes, Sushi For Beginners (William Morrow, 2003).

Anna Maxted, Running in Heels (HarperCollins, 2001).

Jennifer Weiner, Good In Bed (Washington Square Press, 2001).

Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada (Doubleday, 2003).

posted by Rosabelle 2:24 PM  

1 Comments:

  • At Thursday, 02 December, 2004, Blogger Paula said…

    Interesting article. Will reread it more carefully later and maybe blog about it myself. (Crusie's Bet Me isn't precisely chick-lit cuz it's written in third-person.) My first take on the spate of contemporary romances (not chick-lit, as I don't read it) with heavier heroines was that it was simply a backlash against the old-style romance heroine who was usually 17 and waiflike.

     

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