The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness - Paperback
by Kim Chernin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060925055ISBN-10:60925051UPC:9780060925055Book Category:Fiction, PsychologySize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5006W2R7
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060925055ISBN-10:60925051UPC:9780060925055Book Category:Fiction, PsychologySize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5006W2R7
Chernin, Kim: - Kim Chernin is a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where she teaches a course in psychoanalytic models with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. She is the author of two books about eros and memory, Crossing the Border  and Sex and other Sacred Games  (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger, The Obsession, The Hungry Self,   and...
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