Eat Pray Love: A Nuanced Critique

In this video, I discuss the 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (and the 2010 film starring Julia Roberts) and why so many people both hate and love it.

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Sources:
Confessions of a Seduction Addict | The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/confessions-of-a-seduction-addict.html?src=recg&_r=0

Eat Pray Love: Producing the Neoliberal Female Spiritual Subject - Ruth Williams
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259551529_Eat_Pray_Love_Producing_the_Female_Neoliberal_Spiritual_Subject

After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation - Rumya Sree Putcha
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468797620946808?journalCode=toua

Eat, Pray, Love—And War - Richard A. Voeltz
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26925475

The new colonialism of "Eat, Pray, Love" | Salon
https://www.salon.com/2010/08/14/i_me_myself/

"Eat Pray Love" prompts merchandising bonanza | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-us-eatpraylove/eat-pray-love-prompts-merchandising-bonanza-idUKTRE6795JA20100813

“Eat, Pray, Love” | B***h Media
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/eat-pray-spend

00:00 Intro
4:45 1) Cry - an emotional shift
11:45 2) Eat - the act of indulgence
21:05 3) Pray - the pitfalls of detachment
30:30 4) Spend - commercializing spirituality
44:10 5) Love - the illusion of transformation

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