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Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa Paperback - 2000
by Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
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Details
- Title Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
- Author Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 3rd Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0375724486I5N00
- ISBN 9780375724480 / 0375724486
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.18 x 0.83 in (20.37 x 13.16 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Anorexia nervosa - History, Anorexia nervosa - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028210
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
From the publisher
First line
new permissiveness in many areas of social behavior, parents in the 1960s were counseled against taking adolescent food refusal lightly or allowing it to continue.
From the jacket flap
Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. 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.