BOOK REVIEW: Ruth Raymond Thone. FAT: A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH? New York and London: The Harrington Park Press, 1997. and Edited by Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina and Sarah Stanbury. WRITING ON THE BODY: FEMALE EMBODIMENT AND FEMINIST THEORY. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. and Edited by Lori Hope Lefkovitz. TEXTUAL BODIES: CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF LITERARY REPRESENTATION. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997.