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Edible Woman, The

I.	Introduction



II.	Margaret Atwood



III.	Plot Summary



IV.	Characters



V.	Themes



VI.	Literary Technique



VII.	Historical and Social Context



VIII.	Questions



IX.	Further Reading

Literature Guide - Edible Woman, The

Atwood, Margaret Published 1969

I Introduction

Margaret Atwoods The Edible Woman is about women and their relationships to men, to society, and to food and eating. It is through food and eating that Atwood discusses a young womans rebellion against a modern, male-dominated world. The female protagonist, Marian McAlpin, struggles between the role that society has imposed on her and her personal definition of self; and food becomes the symbol of that struggle and her eventual rebellion. At the end of The Edible Woman, Marian partially reconstructs that new persona, or concept of self, through a renewed relationship to food. ...


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