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A Eatable Woman, the 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young lady whose reasonable, integrated, consumer-oriented globe suddenly slips strangely away from focus. Following, Marian McAlpin finds herself unable to eat: number 1 meat, so eggs, & eventually potentially vegetables turn into detestable to her.

around that novel, Atwood presents the view the positions of men & women in a society across metaphoric individual cannibalism.

The Edible Woman: Readers' Group Companion
Guide to Atwood's novel from the Random House website.

Are Women Edible?
Essay by Kenneth Hermansson.

Excerpts from 'The Edible Woman'
Several excerpts from the book.