In China, women are having their legs broken and extended by 5cms. In Iran, behind the Hijab there are 35,000 cosmetic nose reconstructions a year. In Brazil breasts and bottoms are reshaped along with the face so that women there can reflect western norms of beauty. This book states that our body becomes the measure of our worth.

Reflecting on our diet and body-obsessed society, this work provides an introduction that explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. Exploring our love/hate relationship with food, it describes how fat is about so much more than food.

Shows readers how to think and feel differently about what they eat. This book contains statements which help to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms.

The second collection of her Guardian columns, following the successful WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE. Susie Orbach is regarded as Britain's most famous psychotherapist.

'This book highlights the fact that women are brought up to understand men's emotional needs but men are not brought up to understand women's.' Woman

The first collection of the highly successful GUARDIAN columns by Susie Orbach, one of Britain's best known psychotherapists

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America. This book raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a fresh theory on how we became embodied.