Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375724480ISBN-10:375724486UPC:9780375724480Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Developmental, PsychopathologyBook Topic:Adolescent, Eating DisordersSize:8.02 x 5.18 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC1KA5KB81
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
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...
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375724480ISBN-10:375724486UPC:9780375724480Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Developmental, PsychopathologyBook Topic:Adolescent, Eating DisordersSize:8.02 x 5.18 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC1KA5KB81
JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG is a Stephen H. Weiss Professor at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
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