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Fasting Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
其他書名
The History of Anorexia Nervosa
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2000-10-10
主題
Psychology / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders
Medical / History
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
0375724486
9780375724480
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kQnbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 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.