Appetite As A Voice By Brumberg: Article Analysis

The 1977 article “Appetite as a Voice” by Brumberg displays the connection between female’s social personality and their eating habits from the women’s perspective in the Victorian era. The author discourses about the history of Victorian women’s who consumes little food, which reveals their personality and culture of that period. Further, the article demonstrates the reason behind the hunger of women to get a convinced size and why this issue was avoided instead of solving. The author uses this concept which spoke a lot about the women’s social status in that time. The rise of anorexia nervosa in women was accepted by the culture and approved by the doctors. The author used the example of examination room where doctors were more interested