We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.