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The Obsession: Refflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness Trade paperback - 1981
by Chernin, Kim; Kin Chernin
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- Title The Obsession: Refflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
- Author Chernin, Kim; Kin Chernin
- Illustrator Gloria Adelson (Cover Design); Robin Malkin (Design)
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition 1st Harper Colophon Books Ed:1982
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 210
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Perennial Library/Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, et al.
- Date 1981
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5ivAf0016
- ISBN 9780060909673 / 0060909676
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81047224
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.4
Summary
The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies—a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.
First line
I REMEMBER THE FIRST time I ate compulsively.