At home I involved myself in politics, made my little speeches, and was active in the Labor Youth League. Like most adolescents, I had begun to lead a divided life. In her memoir, In My Mother's House, Chernin writes: Kim Chernin was active as an organizer of the LYL Labor Youth League and, upon graduation from high school, traveled to Moscow for the Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students. government tried unsuccessfully to denaturalize her and deprive her of citizenship for such activities. Her mother resumed full-time work as a party organizer and in 1951 made national headline news when she was arrested for 'advocating the overthrow of the government.' Rose Chernin was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee for her work as a party organizer. Shortly after Nina's death, the Kusnitz family relocated to Los Angeles to be near relatives. Chernin's childhood was influenced by the death of her older sister, Nina, to Hodgkin's lymphoma. Paul Kusnitz was a teacher of Marxism for the Communist Party. Rose Chernin was an organizer for the Communist Party and founded the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. Her parents, Rose Chernin and Paul Kusnitz, were Russian-born Jewish immigrants. Kim Chernin (– December 17, 2020) was an American feminist writer, poet, and memoirist.Ĭhernin was born on May 7, 1940, in the Bronx, New York.

Good thing that happened because my therapist was really doing it for me recently.Feminism, Judaism, mysticism, psychoanalysis, spirituality, eating disorders, food I could on, because this book really hit the nerves in me that lay dormant in me for a while. Its about the desire of identity and the power claimed in one. Its about the desire to evolve as a person. Its about the desire to grow and be loved and to be human. Because at the root of this disease is the desire to overcome the body and its limitations. This book messaged my brain and comforted my confusion and pain I have due growing up under two sisters with eating disorders. The book spoke the damn truth about mothers and daughters. This book spoke to mothers and daughters. She gets why we do what we do when we do it. The best part is, and why I learned so much and why this is a winner, Kim CHernin gets women. She is explaining one of the most complex issues of our society in an intelligent and meaningful way.

Very valuable information, but will take a while to digest. Just recently finished this one and let me assure you, I had to read some sentences or paragraphs four or five times because I just needed to eat this shit up. Pretty phenomenal read, fascinating for anybody in or near an eating disorder.

The Hungry Self by Kim Chernin