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Teen-aged girls hate their bodies and diet obsessively, or so we hear. News stories and reports of survey research often claim that as many as three girls in five are on a diet at any given time, and they grimly suggest that many are "at risk" for eating disorders. But how much can we believe these frightening stories? What do teenagers mean when they say they are dieting? Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls--lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina--about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls' sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics. Most of the white girls in her study disliked something about their bodies and knew all too well that they did not look like the envied, hated "perfect girl' But they did not diet so much as talk about dieting. Nichter wryly argues-in fact some of the girls as much as tell her-that "fat talk" is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of being, or creating solidarit

Who reads Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting.?

Author

Mimi Nichter.

Publisher

Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ($22.95). Tel: 617-496-1340; Fax: 617-349-5244

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674041547

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Anthropology