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Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (Plume) by Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Anorexia nervosa may affect as many as five to ten percent of adolescent girls in the United States, and on some college campuses, the estimate is as high as twenty percent. Despite its recent. “popularity,” however, the disease remains puzzling in its causes and stubbornly resistant to a cure. For, as FASTING GIRLS demonstrates, anorexia nervosa existed long before our current preoccupation with lean bodies. This landmark, award-winning work offers a solution to the mystery of anorexia nervosa, exploring its historical roots from the. fasting saints of the Middle Ages and the curious “fasting girls” of the Victorian Era to the Cherry Boones and Karen Carpenters of our own time. By linking broad cultural forces to individual biomedical and psychological factors, FASTING GIRLS shows how a society that believes a woman “can never be too rich or too thin” actually recruits certain adolescents to anorexia—those who regard a thin body as a state of perfection. Combined with other social stresses, such an attitude puts an increasing number of contemporary young women at risk. Highly readable and authoritative, FASTING GIRLS takes the reader into the private world of sufferers in the past

Who reads Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (Plume)?

Author

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Publisher

New York, NY: Plume

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780452262379

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, History