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1993 Harvard University Press hardcover. 136 pages. rated good condition. The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation – whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics – is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for pr
