What do you think Carter means when she says thatWomen's Lib...helped' her to cope with her [own]...anorexia?
What do you understand as the main concerns for Women's Lib?
What did you find out about the history of the women's movement?
What do you think this idea might suggest about anorexia?
Carter sees anorexia as a 'fashionable' ailment for the seventies. It seems to be even motre common now. Why should this be?
What would you say are the main differences between the way anorexia is presented here and the way we tend to read/hear about it today?
Find the references in the text to physical states and experiences which are specifically feminine.
Why do you think these are linked with anorexia?
What does the Aeneas reference add to the text, do you think?
