{"title":"Books by Amber Husain","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781529154337","title":"Tell Me How You Eat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Deeply researched and original' \u003c\/b\u003eRUBY TANDOH, author of\u003ci\u003e All Consuming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stunningly profound and politically rousing' \u003c\/b\u003eSOPHIE LEWIS, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What a treat to be so compelled to turn the page' \u003c\/b\u003eLOTTIE HAZELL, author of \u003ci\u003ePiglet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Witty, unsparing, surprising and rich' \u003c\/b\u003eALICIA KENNEDY, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Meat Required\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you are what you eat, what does that make \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e? Virtuous, cool, immortal? Or deviant, pitiful, ill? Is it useful to make these judgements? Do they help us improve our lives?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world where it feels as though the value of your life can be gauged by the goodness in your dinner, it is possible, even easy, to lose the will to live. This became particularly obvious to writer Amber Husain when suddenly, despite almost thirty years of practice, it seemed she had forgotten how to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedical wisdom tries fix the problem non-eater by teaching them the rules of Good Diet. But what if the problem is precisely the narrowing of life to questions of personal goodness? Suspecting there might be more to her stand-off with food than matters of identity and diet, Husain embarked on an enquiry into the special role of eating in our relationship with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining a personal account of modern eating-disorder treatments, from the disturbing to the sublime, with a sprawling collective history of eating in hard times, \u003ci\u003eTell Me How You Eat\u003c\/i\u003e unearths the astonishing effect of how we feed ourselves and others, not just on who we are, but on how we perceive our own political power. In doing so, it marks a bold and inspiring confrontation with our very understanding of food.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56368992452981,"sku":"9781529154337","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682804605301,"sku":"9781804950869","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529154337_5f72f055-4de3-4c5f-a856-e0125ab96bcb.jpg?v=1792511688"},{"product_id":"replace-me","title":"Replace Me","description":"Fear of being replaced has come to define the late-capitalist psyche. In an age of gig work and AI, more and more workers are threatened with replacement; meanwhile dating apps present both limitless choice and limitless competition, and demagogues stoke racist paranoia through myths of 'replacement' by immigrant populations. In this wide-ranging essay, Amber Husain asks how we might redirect the fear, turning our replaceability from an individual weakness into a collective strength. Radical, clear-sighted, and moving, Replace Me examines both the terror and the allure in fantasies of infinite replacement. Hailed by Chris Kraus as 'one of the most sweeping assessments to date of neoliberalism's psychic toll', this new edition features a foreword by Daisy Lafarge and an afterword by the author.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510216499573,"sku":"9781913512972","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913512972.jpg?v=1787130552"},{"product_id":"meat-love-an-ideology-of-the-flesh","title":"Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57759693504885,"sku":"9781915743039","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-amber-husain.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}