A New Meaning to Soul Food

BOOKNOTES

Women Food and God
Geneen Roth
Scribner, 2010

ISBN 978 1 4165 4307 7

Many readers who pick up Geneen Roth’s new book have already worked their way through her previous bestseller: When Food is Love. Both narrate her therapy with women who do battle with food. Those who believe they love nothing more than they love food, and those who believe that they hate nothing more than they hate food. Roth tells the stories of many women who are caught in a tug of war between these feelings. They love to hate food; they hate to love it.

Roth and many authors like her have an insider’s view of eating disorders. They merge deep psychological themes such as ambivalence about mother, self-critical views of the body, and ambivalence about food. In this book Roth takes the food obsessed worldview a step farther. She proposes that the web of behavior, feelings, and beliefs that shape the meaning of eating also reflect the inner map of spirituality.


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