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Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs

Paperback

Child PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0375724486
ISBN13: 9780375724480
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 10 2000
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families.

Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, wonders of science whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict slimming regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.

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