| Description |
xix, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Too "close to the bone" : the historical context for women's obsession with slenderness / Roberta P. Seid -- ... And man created "woman" : representations of women's bodies in Western culture / O. Wayne Wooley -- "I'll die for the revolution but don't ask me not to diet" : feminism and the continuing stigmatization of obesity / Esther D. Rothblum -- Faces of female discontent : depression, disordered eating, and changing gender roles / Deborah Perlick and Brett Silverstein -- Hunger / Naomi Wolf -- Four generations of women : our bodies and lives / Bonita Brigman -- When reproductive and productive worlds meet : collision or growth? / Melanie A. Katzman -- Imagining ourselves whole : a feminist approach to treating body image disorders / Marcia Germaine Hutchinson. |
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Sexual abuse and eating disorders : the concealed debate / Susan C. Wooley -- Alternatives in obesity treatment : focusing on health for fat women / Debora Burgard and Pat Lyons -- A collaborative approach to the use of medication / Nancy C. Raymond ... [ et al.] -- Feminist inpatient treatment for eating disorders : an oxymoron? / Robin Sesan -- Mothers, daughters, and eating disorders : honoring the mother-daughter relationship / Judith Ruskay Rabinor -- "Hi, I'm Jane : I'm a compulsive overeater" / Katherine van Wormer -- Conflicts of body and image : female adolescents, desire, and the no- body body / Deborah L. Tolman and Elizabeth Debold -- The female therapist as outlaw / Susan C. Wooley -- The journey of recovery : dimensions of change / Linda Peters and Patricia Fallon -- Food, bodies, and growing up female : childhood lessons about culture, race, and class / Becky Thompson. |
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The politics of prevention / Catherine Steiner-Adair -- Still killing us softly : advertising and the obsession with thinness / Jean Kilbourne -- Toward a new model for the prevention of eating disorders / Catherine M. Shisslak and Majorie Crago -- A feminist agenda for psychological research on eating disorders / Ruth H. Striegel-Moore. |
| Subject |
Eating disorders -- Social aspects.
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Feminist therapy.
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Women -- Psychology.
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Body image.
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Feminist criticism.
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| Added Author |
Fallon, Patricia.
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Katzman, Melanie.
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Wooley, Susan.
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| ISBN |
1572301821 (pbk.) |
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0898621801 (acid-free paper) |
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