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The Famine Within

1990, Movie, NR, 90 mins

The Famine Within: Review

Food, and its consumption, has become a feminist issue, and THE FAMINE WITHIN, a very serious Canadian documentary written, directed and produced by Katherine Gilday, dives into the subject with a vengeance. Despite its largely talking-heads format, THE FAMINE WITHIN provides a sociological/historical overview and a wealth of facts (25 years ago the average model weighed 8 percent less than the average woman; today it's 23 percent less) about how the mass media and the cult... read more leave a comment