Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl

A groundbreaking debut memoir that examines the rhyming scripts of diet culture and evangelical purity culture, both of which direct women to fear their own bodies and appetites

Raised Baptist in an insular Appalachian community, Anna Rollins learned early that among the world’s many dangers, her own body loomed large. So, she dedicated herself to keeping it small—strictly controlling her calories and exercising to the point of exhaustion while murmuring some version of the prayer: “We must...