The Politics of the Hungry Woman

🏛️ Journey from ancient Venus figurines to futuristic GLP-1 prescriptions as this episode uncovers the long story of how women have been praised for shrinking themselves, eating less, and calling it virtue.

🔍 We chart the recurring pattern: every time women gain political ground, a new beauty ideal emerges to shrink them back. From suffrage and the flapper craze, to second wave feminism and Twiggy, to third wave and heroin chic, and now the most educated generation of women facing a resurgence of extreme thinness.

📊 The numbers nobody puts next to each other: what the 1,200-calorie diet sits alongside historically, what the Minnesota Starvation Experiment found.

🧬 The biology that diet culture fights: how adipose tissue acts as an endocrine organ, why cellulite signals femininity, and the hidden costs of chronically underfeeding women—on hormones, bone strength, and dopamine.

🌍 The full political picture rolling back of women's rights, the class architecture of SkinnyTok, the obesity epidemic as an economic story, and why finishing your plate might be the most radical thing a woman can do right now.

📖 This episode references Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth the audiobook is on Audible and I cannot recommend it enough get your first month with audible free.

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