A performance project on self-starvation in the clinic, the arts, and prison, which considers starvation as a gendered practice.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Hunger in the Event of Subjectivity 1
1. The Archive of Anorexia 30
2. Enduring Performance 57
3. How to Stage Self-Consumption 85
4. To Lie Down to Death for Days 110
Afterword: The Ends of Hunger 138
Notes 153
References 173
Index 185