Consumed: Women On Excess
Edited by Savannah Schroll Guz
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Okay, here’s THE IDEA:
We are women driven by consumption and the insatiable desire for bigger, for better, for more. It’s a response programmed into our psyches even before we’re fully cognizant of media culture, and it’s transforming the natural course of civilization, history, and ultimately humanity. It’s invisible to us because it’s indivisible from our identities.
This collection is not about goods alone, but everything we crave—lost time, gluttony, hedonism, addiction—anything related to the pleasures, pain, joys and evils of wasting, buying, imbibing, or ingesting—even accumulating. The authors and artists here have complete creative freedom within the multiple definitions of consumption and all its lusty, ravenous, and sweaty implications.
The authors and artists in this anthology are exclusively women whose work has appeared online. They are sprinkled throughout the United States and England. I sought to incorporate each particular contributor’s work because they have a style or voice that is individually arresting but also works beautifully within the whole. With this anthology, I hope to amplify their unique talents and bring satisfied smiles to hungry hedonists everywhere.
Contributing Authors:
- Claire Zulkey
- Jai Clare
- Jackie Corley
- Pia Z. Ehrhardt
- Claudia Smith
- Amy Havel
- RoseMarie London
- Rochelle Spencer
- Gail Louise Siegel
Contributing Artists:
- Kate Bingaman
- Roxanne (‘Roxi’) Carter
- Caroll Planque
- Bridget Riversmith
- Brenda Stumpf
- Gilda Davidian
Published February 2006