Food in [in Judith Moore's book] Fat Girl has, in Heidegger's terms, become an object, not a thing with the rich multi-dimensionality of the cultural artefact that gathers the fourfold unity of earth and sky, human and divine. But what is even more striking, and harrowing, is the way Moore's own body has also become an object - that is, the way she has turned what Heidegger called the objectifying gaze upon herself.

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